Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 13:15 -0500 schrieb Nat Gross:
> On 3/31/06, John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Nat Gross wrote:
> > >>On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 17:48 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>First off, I do not know what options to use.
> > >>
> > >>Generally, I've not had to use any.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Secondly, for each movie type I will have to use diferent parameters?
> > >>
> > >>I haven't had to do so. "mplayer something.avi" "mplayer something.mpg"
> > >>"mplayer something.mov" have all worked just as simply as that.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Third, its not part of the gui any longer; can't right-click and
> > >>>choose 'play in mplayer'.
> > >>
> > >>There should also be some sort of mplayer-gui package (or command, it
> > >>might be included in the base package). I haven't installed mplayer the
> > >>way that you did, though; but it works in the same way once installed.
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hey,
> > >
> > >
> > >>the only parameter you have to give is the filename of the movie you wanna
> > >>watch: mplayer moviename.mpg -> thats all....
> > >
> > >
> > >>why not using mplayer in the gui? you can open it should be soemewhere in
> > >>the multimedia section of gnome...it doesnt seem that you installed the
> > >>gui... yum -y install mplayer-gui, this should make it available in
> > >
> > > gnome too...
> > >
> > > Ok. It works via 'mplayer <filename>' and that includes avi files
> > > (something that didn't work before for me).
> > >
> > > However, I am having gui problems. Besides not appearing in the
> > > right-click menu, entering just 'mplayer' should bring up a gui.
> > > yum is having a problem installing the gui:
> > > -------------------
> > > Running Transaction Test
> > > Finished Transaction Test
> > > Transaction Test Succeeded
> > > Running Transaction
> > > Installing: mplayer-gui ######################### [1/1]
> > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> > > /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default: cpio : rename
> > >
> > > Installed: mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5
> > > Complete!
> > > --------------------
> > > It said complete!. Nada.
> > > By the way 'ls /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default' shows 0 files.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > nat
> > >
> >
> >
> > The gui version is named "gmplayer".
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John
> >
> It seems like its missing the skins. Here is a dump of my terminal:
> -------------------------------
> ]$ gmplayer
> MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-rpm.livna.org-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 4)
> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
> CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>
>
>
> vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
> Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
> Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your
> system startup scripts.
> Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
> Can't init input joystick
> Setting up LIRC support...
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support.
> You will not be able to use your remote control.
> [skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
> Skin not found (default)
> -------------------------------
> It seems like a minor thing to fix manually. (I don't know how.)
> But I prefer to use yum for it, in order to automate future upgrades.
> And yum has the problem noted above in my previous post.
>
> Thanks
> nat
>
yum -y install mplayer-skins
Roger
