Oliver Ruebenacker schrieb:
Dear friends,
I installed mplayer under Fedora 7 with yum and it appears in the
menu, but when I choose it, it won't start. Something that looks like
an unusually small dialog box appears and disappears again too quickly
to see anything.
How can I find out what is wrong? Is there a place for error messages?
I already checked /var/log/messages, but found nothing.
Take care
Oliver
mplayer needs an arguement - at list a file that it should play!
It thus does not make sense, that there's an entry in the menu bar. It
will fail to start by definition.
Try this:
# mplayer /home/yourname/yourmediafile.mpg
and it will work:
Btw.: If you want to have most codecs available on the market visit this
page:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
and download this file:
http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
unzip this file with
tar fxj all-20071007.tar.bz2
and move all codec files to /usr/lib/codecs
That's all
greets Boris
