mplayer -gui = no go

[S_D_Willie]

sorry i had to repost this but the search option here never works good

i had mplayer working a while ago in redhat 7.3
just installed it and i can run it from right clicking on the file but i get no gui player.

i remembered to use --enable-gui during the configure and i just took the example.conf, renamed it to config move it to .mplayer and uncommented the skin line but didnt see a gui line like the documentation says.

when i run mplyer -gui i get this:

[sdwillie@localhost sdwillie]$ mplayer -gui


MPlayer 0.90pre8-2.96 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading config file: /home/gabucino/.mplayer/savage4.conf: No such file or directory
this option can only be used in config file:
Error: 'gui' is not a mplayer/mencoder option
command line: -gui
[sdwillie@localhost sdwillie]$

any idea what the config is supposed to look like or what the fix is?
thanks

SD

[cloverm]

You need to run gmplayer, not mplayer -gui

[Schotty]

Ya know, that would explain a hell of alot I did the same thing, and tried running it pretty much the same way and just said fuck it. I associated mplayer to movie files and just used the keypad.

Thanks cloverm!

[S_D_Willie]

awesome, thanks man. ;D

SD

one problem, i run it and get " cant load ~/.mplayer/font/font.desc"
but i made sure to create the .mplayer/font direcotory and it has font.desc in it.

?

[cloverm]

I'm not sure, but I have mine in /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc

[CP]

I had a few problems with font dirs and skin dirs etc. I found it best to have them in both places. /home/.mplayer, and /usr/local/share/mplayer
I know it seems stupid but it seemed to work
CP

[trickster]

[quote author=S.D.Willie link=board=2;threadid=5069;start=0#50306 date=1032549694]
awesome, thanks man. ;D

SD

one problem, i run it and get " cant load ~/.mplayer/font/font.desc"
but i made sure to create the .mplayer/font direcotory and it has font.desc in it.

?
[/quote]
I had that error. In my case, it was caused because I put the folder with fonts inside the fonts folder in the mplayer folder. I copied all the fonts from the folder where they untar to the fonts folder in mplayer, and it works fine.

[S_D_Willie]

that last post confused the hell out of me !!!!!

i made sure the fonts folder was extracted and put into ~./mplayer/font
and /usr/local/share/mplayer/font but that didnt do it. weird right?

[trickster]

My bad, i thought that would happen.
When you download the fonts from the mplayer site, it decompress to a folder, called iso-8859-1. This folder has inside many multiple folders witht he same font in different sizes. (arial-14, arial-18, etc) Go inside one of these folders and copy all the contents of them into /usr/local/share/mplayer/font