::..Mplayer Skin Problem..::

[smuthustalin]

STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You can use any TrueType font installed on your system. Just pass '-font
/path/to/font.ttf' on the command line or add 'font=/path/to/font.ttf' to
your configuration file. The manual page has more details. Alternatively
you can create a symbolic link from either ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf or
/usr/local/share/mplayer/subfont.ttf to your TrueType font.

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STEP5: Installing a GUI skin
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Unpack the archive and put the contents in /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or
~/.mplayer/skins/. MPlayer will use the skin in the subdirectory named default
of /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ or ~/.mplayer/skins/ unless told otherwise
via the '-skin' switch. You should therefore rename your skin subdirectory or
make a suitable symbolic link.

Source - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README

Q: I Download Lot of skin, extract and Put it into (include Blue-1.7.tar.bz2)

/usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/ - it's not worked.
/usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/default/skin -it's not worked.

i tried lot of methods.. But i'ts not working properly. When i open mplayer from menu i got skin not found message...

What's the Correct parth to proper work of skin? anyone solve my problem. plz...

When i try to install Vlc player 8.06b, i got error message... ffmpeg/Avicodec.h not found or something. What's the problem? What can i do?

[aliov]

/usr/local/share/mplayer/skins is the correct directory and in the last skins directory you should have a skin not in a sub folder just the files inside a skin tarball, another question did you compile mplayer with GUI support if not you can't use gmplayer, to be sure type in the terminal gmplayer and see if this command found.


Hope this help

[bryansmith]

In the README, it mentions that you can put the skin in ~/.mplayer/skins/ (/home/<user name>/.mplayer/skins/). Put the skin there and it should work (for your user).

[smuthustalin]

Thanks for your reply. Ya! i Compile with './configure --enable-gui' commend.
Gmplayer file is there. Only skin problem. Ok. I'll checkit. then i reply it.

ffmepg/avicodec.h problem when compiling Videolan Vlc player. But i installed ffmpeg codec pack. what's this problem.

[oldcpu]

At the risk of stating the obvious, after you copy your font of choice into the ~/.mplayer/ folder, don't forget to rename the font file to "subfont.ttf".

[smuthustalin]

I'll attached my problems...

Fatal error! Skin not readable.

[gogalthorp]

Could be a rights problem who owns the files in question do you have rights to them?