gmplayer skin issue

[victim_of_EMwaves]

Hi,

I installed mplayer with gmplayer and the installation wen through normally with no errors. I tired to install the skin for my gmplayer but its giving me this error message :
]# gmplayer

MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
[skin] file (' /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin' ) not readable.

Can anyone tell me what exactly should I do in order to fix this issue I read about this issue in this forum but wasn't able to fix this error.

Right now i've got .png files copied in this location:

# ls '/usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin'

Thanks in Advance!

[atreyu]

Did you install the skin as root? Perhaps you need to change the ownship of the skin directory?

chmod 0775 /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin

[victim_of_EMwaves]

First of all thanks for the reply and I am sorry 'atreyu' I was super user while the installation of the mplayer but I forgot to paste in the entire terminal screen output:

Here is the permission for my skin directory:

[root@identitycrisis ~]# ls -l /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/
total 4
drwxrw-rw-. 2 root root 4096 Jul 22 17:11 skin

Any suggestions besides this?

[atreyu]

hmm...your mplayer skins dir does not look like mine. My skins are in /usr/share/mplayer versus /usr/local/share/mplayer, but that is not what I'm talking about - ignore that difference.

My /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default is a symbolic link pointing to the only theme installed, "Blue". So it looks like this:

ls -l /usr/share/mplayer/skins/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul 22 17:43 Blue
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 Jul 22 17:43 default -> Blue

Then, inside that default directory, is a file named "skins", whereas it looks like a dir on yours. E.g., on my system:

 ls -l /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 5965 Nov 24  2005 /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin

So you may need to redo the installation of the skin, or fix it by hand. As to the skin file/dir permissions, a good rule of thumb is to make sure that any dirs are mode 0755 (everyone can read/execute them) and the files are mode 0644 (everyone can read them).

[victim_of_EMwaves]

RESOLVED

Hey thanks,

Yup u are right I created a directory named default inside my usr/local/share/mplaer/skin folder
I did it because I thought that gmplayer is looking for some skin directory inside default directory, but after ur post I got the solution to my problem
this time I linked by 'Abyss' skin folder with default by typing:
ln -s Abyss default

To end it on a good note I will ask u a small question:
Could you please lemme know how do we know that the error message was for the symbolic link n not for the directory??

Error:
'[skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).'

[atreyu]

I could not tell what was wrong based upon the gmplayer error you received. I was only clued in once I looked at the directory structure of my own installation of gmplayer. Does that answer your question?

[victim_of_EMwaves]

yeah !
thanks a lot once again.

[atreyu]

np - i was meaning to install gmplayer again anyway, glad i had a reason!