Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 03:15, Terry Sheltra wrote: Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) Len Lawrence wrote: It's dependent on how the DVD was created. I like Final Fanstasy, but constantly have to muck with the subtitles and the likes to get it to play properly - but on the other hand, if I stick in say, Beetlejuice, I get the whole shebang. Same with Monsters, Inc. That's exactly why I use Ogle to play Dvds. It plays the Dvd's in the same way that the Dvd player would. Mplayer's value to me is in decoding m$ media streams. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdkEvolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 09:36, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: That's exactly why I use Ogle to play Dvds. It plays the Dvd's in the same way that the Dvd player would. Mplayer's value to me is in decoding m$ media streams. --LX Ok...I'm convinced...I have all the oogle shit here, so I guess I'll have to install it on this machine again...hate to take advice from people with an X in their name, but this time I'll make and exception...(g) -- Fri Jan 17 10:40:00 EST 2003 10:40am up 20:23, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.14, 0.17 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Eschew obfuscation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On 16 Jan 2003 17:36:09 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 03:15, Terry Sheltra wrote: Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) Len Lawrence wrote: It's dependent on how the DVD was created. I like Final Fanstasy, but constantly have to muck with the subtitles and the likes to get it to play properly - but on the other hand, if I stick in say, Beetlejuice, I get the whole shebang. Same with Monsters, Inc. That's exactly why I use Ogle to play Dvds. It plays the Dvd's in the same way that the Dvd player would. Except that some of the gui buttons don't work. Have used ogle over a period of two years, different versions - STOP button never worked. Mplayer's value to me is in decoding m$ media streams. -- Len Lawrence -- The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:14:46 -0500 Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you've gotten further with things than I have. I am not able to get Xine (off the MDK CDs) to work properly with any DVD I own. All I can manage to do is make it crash, even after installing every codec and plugin available from the PLF website. Pretty much the same for me with Mplayer. It will run, but does not keep my settings, and trying to play a DVD results in a window full of garbage, again after installing all the plugins available via PLF. If you happen to come across a way to get either of these two progs working, please let me know. Sorry to hear that you are having so much difficulty with these applications. Each newer version of these multimedia programs seems to get more difficult to install and get running but that is the price you pay for greater functionality and improved performance. Ogle always seems to be easier to manage, but its gui is not fully functional - several dead buttons. I installed Mandrake's xine from the 8.2 download CDs so kindly provided by Shane and had endless trouble trying to get it going by downloading RPMs and doing rpm -ivh installs. Urpmi certainly makes life easier and so does PLF. Needless to say I cannot remember exactly what the prescription was for xine but it involved libxine, xine-gui, win32 codecs and xine-plugins. Have you tried invoking it with the command xine -s DVD dvdnav:// or xine -pq -s DVD dvdnav:// to play immediately and quit when finished? There are other things to check like the settings in ~/.xinerc and the rawdevices service (which is probably running by default) and /dev/dvd. Then there are the skins - haven't sorted that one out yet. The same goes for mplayer. Poked around on the PLF site to see what was available and, like you, downloaded several packages. Had trouble choosing a video driver but x11 worked. If your settings don't stick maybe you need to create a ~/.mplayer/config file (copy from /etc/mplayer.conf perhaps?). It works on DVDs for me with mplayer -dvd 1 (or 2 or 3...). Also, there is a short tutorial on the net about getting DVDs to play under one or other of these applications, reported on this list very recently: http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Maybe you have already seen that. Sorry if this does not help. I have been shooting in the dark a lot lately. -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:45:49 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. If DMA is not turned on for your harddrives, it'll cause the picture to be really jerky, too. Do a hdparm -d /dev/hda as root to see if it's on. If it's not, do a hdparm -d1 /dev/hda and see if that makes a difference. OK, thanks Miark. Will have to download hdparm I guess. Hope it is a standalone. -- Len Lawrence -- On the subject of C program indentation: In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. -- Blair P. Houghton -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) Len Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:14:46 -0500 Sorry to hear that you are having so much difficulty with these applications. Each newer version of these multimedia programs seems to get more difficult to install and get running but that is the price you pay for greater functionality and improved performance. Ogle always seems to be easier to manage, but its gui is not fully functional - several dead buttons. I installed Mandrake's xine from the 8.2 download CDs so kindly provided by Shane and had endless trouble trying to get it going by downloading RPMs and doing rpm -ivh installs. Urpmi certainly makes life easier and so does PLF. Needless to say I cannot remember exactly what the prescription was for xine but it involved libxine, xine-gui, win32 codecs and xine-plugins. Have you tried invoking it with the command xine -s DVD dvdnav:// or xine -pq -s DVD dvdnav:// to play immediately and quit when finished? There are other things to check like the settings in ~/.xinerc and the rawdevices service (which is probably running by default) and /dev/dvd. Then there are the skins - haven't sorted that one out yet. The same goes for mplayer. Poked around on the PLF site to see what was available and, like you, downloaded several packages. Had trouble choosing a video driver but x11 worked. If your settings don't stick maybe you need to create a ~/.mplayer/config file (copy from /etc/mplayer.conf perhaps?). It works on DVDs for me with mplayer -dvd 1 (or 2 or 3...). Also, there is a short tutorial on the net about getting DVDs to play under one or other of these applications, reported on this list very recently: http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Maybe you have already seen that. Sorry if this does not help. I have been shooting in the dark a lot lately. -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #218330 Composed on a 100% Micro$soft-free PC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:15:16 -0500 Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) There is no DVD navigation with MPlayer, at least not a working one. They put this project on hold 'cause it contained a lot of bugs. DVD navigation is done with the console options. I presume you did a `mplayer -dvd 1` or thereabouts? Try using `mplayer -dvd 2`, or 3 and so on, as these are the different tracks, like an audio cd. If it's just your audio that's wrong, you may want to add the option -alang en in the command to select the english audio track. Hope this helps, Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. - George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 03:15, Terry Sheltra wrote: Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and the movie started to play. I didn't get the DVD navigation menu like I had expected (is there a separate package for this? or does mplayer not even support it?), and the audio track was that of the director's commentary, and not the movie audio track. How can I go about fixing these? Thanks again Len! :-) Len Lawrence wrote: It's dependent on how the DVD was created. I like Final Fanstasy, but constantly have to muck with the subtitles and the likes to get it to play properly - but on the other hand, if I stick in say, Beetlejuice, I get the whole shebang. Same with Monsters, Inc. -- Thu Jan 16 10:05:00 EST 2003 10:05am up 2 days, 1:46, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.11, 0.07 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- It's stuck in the Web. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 17:05, Len Lawrence wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Len Lawrence I'd be inclined to check on the tuning of your drives - file system optimisation has heaps to do with multimedia reads and writes - so in optimising your hard drives and CDROM's, you'll eliminate the obvious. -- Tue Jan 14 20:50:01 EST 2003 8:50pm up 12:31, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.16 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Brace yourselves. We're about to try something that borders on the unique: an actually rather serious technical book which is not only (gasp) vehemently anti-Solemn, but also (shudder) takes sides. I tend to think of it as `Constructive Snottiness.' -- Mike Padlipsky, Elements of Networking Style Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Yes, it works here under LM 9.0, and worked before with 8.2, 8.0 and even before that if I can remember correctly. I don't personally se it though, but my girlfriend does... Maybe the difference is that I build it myself, instead of installing pre-compiled binaries which aren't suited to my system. There are long and large warnings all over mplayer about binaries, and although they do have a link now to some rpm's now, they still advise everyone to compile it themselves. I would suggest this too. MPlayer is just too system-sensitive, but in a good way as it provides a great, stable, fast running media player;-) I have a P3 800mh/z, but even on my P1 233mh/s I was sort-of able to watch a DivX file ... without too my audio delay and stuttering frames. Yeah it wasn't what I call a success, but it ran well still. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. I don't think this is your problem. If you start from a console with `gmplayer` .. read the warnings if there are any, it may just help you. Do you have your codecs installed? If the binary of yours built using libavcodec? libavcodec provides a great decoder / encoder for many formats, much faster than the win32 codecs. Just some ideas, Ralph I would just like to echo Ralph's comments, he helped me get the cvs version on and working and I must say the result has been worth it. It performs all it's gmplayer/ mplayer , mencoder functions flawlessly, and fast. There are a number of issues with M9.0 to be sorted but gradually one by one they were resolved. Ralph has mentioned libavcodec , there may be a question of lame having libmp3lame, depending upon which version of lame you have, I also found you needed a further gcc compiler rpms to get full compiling, and in addition you may need a symlink but the starting point for a successful build is reporting the output errors from the gmplayer command. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 01:05 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Len Lawrence Len, I'm using the Mplayer GUI here, it works fine. I don't use gmplayer. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:14:46 -0500 Terry Sheltra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you've gotten further with things than I have. I am not able to get Xine (off the MDK CDs) to work properly with any DVD I own. All I can manage to do is make it crash, even after installing every codec and plugin available from the PLF website. Pretty much the same for me with Mplayer. It will run, but does not keep my settings, and trying to play a DVD results in a window full of garbage, again after installing all the plugins available via PLF. If you happen to come across a way to get either of these two progs working, please let me know. Thanks! Terry Hi Terry, Is your dvd device linked to /dev/dvd ? The Xine that would come with the MDK CD's won't contain the DVD plugin for encrypted DVD's (most of them) due to legal reasons. I have heard more and more complaints about the RPM's off the lpf site for MPlayer. Still I urge those who can to configure their own on their own system. This increases performance dramatically. Use CVS versions of both mplayer and libavcodec (links in the MPlayer documentation). I have a 100% success almost all the time using a self-made versions, regarding DVD's, playing all sorts of files, and ripping to DivX. So yes, your basic solution would be to read the manual on MPlayer and compile it yourself. It's not that hard, I promise, you only have to know the basics and know how to read (documentation) and with a little effort you will have a player that out-plays the rest, regarding performance and options. Greetings Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. - George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. If DMA is not turned on for your harddrives, it'll cause the picture to be really jerky, too. Do a hdparm -d /dev/hda as root to see if it's on. If it's not, do a hdparm -d1 /dev/hda and see if that makes a difference. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 02:41:59 -0500 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. snip i had problems with the gui when building from source, but when using the plf rpm's gmplayer worked fine. on 8.2 the only way i could get it to work was by upgrading my gtk+ to 2.0x (along with atk, pango, and a couple other deps all supplied at gtk.org) You might try that. Best of luck... mplayer a nice little ap, even without the gui but that does make it much easier to deal with for windoze expats. Thanks Jerry, Ralph and Stephen for your advice. More for the todo list. And nope - never been a Windoze user - been using X, Motif, guis, and Tcl/Tk etc. from years back on Sun Solaris. -- Len Lawrence -- Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:26:25 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralph Slooten wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on - snip - Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. -- snip --- I would just like to echo Ralph's comments, he helped me get the cvs version on and working and I must say the result has been worth it. It performs all it's gmplayer/ mplayer , mencoder functions flawlessly, and fast. There are a number of issues with M9.0 to be sorted but gradually one by one they were resolved. Ralph has mentioned libavcodec , there may be a question of lame having libmp3lame, depending upon which version of lame you have, I also found you needed a further gcc compiler rpms to get full compiling, and in addition you may need a symlink but the starting point for a successful build is reporting the output errors from the gmplayer command. I am holding back on 9.0 for the time being but am making a note of all this. Thanks -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] mplayer gui
Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Len Lawrence -- There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky And it's no good whining About a silver lining For we know from experience that they won't roll by... -- Noel Coward -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 06:05:17 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now got xine, ogle and mplayer installed and running under 8.2 on my Athlon 2200 with G-Force 2 card, thanks to urpmi and PLF (urpmi really rocks!), the first time ever for mplayer. One problem, which may have been discussed in the list already, is a slight jerkiness in the display, which I assume has something to do with using the generic video driver rather than Nvidia's own. It happens with all three programs whereas xine and ogle have always run very smoothly on my old 500 MHz Pentium III with the Voodoo 3 2000 card and Mandrake 8.1. Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. Yes, it works here under LM 9.0, and worked before with 8.2, 8.0 and even before that if I can remember correctly. I don't personally se it though, but my girlfriend does... Maybe the difference is that I build it myself, instead of installing pre-compiled binaries which aren't suited to my system. There are long and large warnings all over mplayer about binaries, and although they do have a link now to some rpm's now, they still advise everyone to compile it themselves. I would suggest this too. MPlayer is just too system-sensitive, but in a good way as it provides a great, stable, fast running media player;-) I have a P3 800mh/z, but even on my P1 233mh/s I was sort-of able to watch a DivX file ... without too my audio delay and stuttering frames. Yeah it wasn't what I call a success, but it ran well still. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. I don't think this is your problem. If you start from a console with `gmplayer` .. read the warnings if there are any, it may just help you. Do you have your codecs installed? If the binary of yours built using libavcodec? libavcodec provides a great decoder / encoder for many formats, much faster than the win32 codecs. Just some ideas, Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. - George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mplayer gui
snip Anyway, that is not the question. Does the mplayer gui work for anybody? It blows up my computer; a nasty clunk from the hard drive, a BSOD, and an empty error box, then nada. Forced to reboot at that stage. Tried gmplayer and gui=yes in the config file. Both cause a problem. snip i had problems with the gui when building from source, but when using the plf rpm's gmplayer worked fine. on 8.2 the only way i could get it to work was by upgrading my gtk+ to 2.0x (along with atk, pango, and a couple other deps all supplied at gtk.org) You might try that. Best of luck... mplayer a nice little ap, even without the gui but that does make it much easier to deal with for windoze expats. Jerry -- -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mplayer gui failure
On Friday 09 November 2001 6:34 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have mplayer installed now. Finally, it only took me 6 months. Anyway, I like a gui invironment and had no trouble with installing fonts but when I try to install a skin I get error message saying [app] skin configfile not found. I have looked in the skin file I downloaded and there is no config file with it. Big suprise. I know it should be within the mplayer program somewhere but I am not seeing it and don't know where to get it. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Other than still working on command line that is. TIA for any suggestions. You need a directory in your home called .mplayer Inside that you need a directory called Skin inside that there should be a directory for each skin you have installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
