[MPlayer-users] Re: gui?

[Zachary Rizer]

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 19:24, Sven Hartge wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> Zaq Rizer <zrizer at yahoo.com> schrieb:
> 
> > Ok, I know everyone is going to scream,  RTFM!! at me, but I _have_
> > RTFM and I still can't get the gui to work. I compiled with the
> > -enable-gui option and I have downloaded a skin. For example, neutron
> > (skin) is in ~/.mplayer/Skin/neutron.  (with all skin files inside of
> > neutron of course). But when mplayer starts it says no skin found in
> > either of the two paths..
> 
> You have already been told the solution (ln -s neutron default), but I
> want (for the archives) to introduce a tool, which often helps to
> diagnose such problems:
> 
> strace
> 
> I guess, after starting gmplayer (or mplayer -gui), you got something
> link this:
> 
> ,----
> | MPlayer CVS-011202-17:45(C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)
> |
> | CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD  max cpuid level: 1
> | CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird
> | extended cpuid-level: 6
> | CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
> | vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bits/pixel (":0.0" => local display)
> | Reading /home/oweh/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 21 audio & 57 video codecs
> | Font /home/oweh/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (495 chars)
> | SKIN dir 1: '/home/oweh/.mplayer/Skin'
> | SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
> | [app] skin configfile not found.
> `----
> 
> (Ok, I admit, not very usefull error message, it should say something
> about "default skin missing" or the like)
> 
> Now, using strace, I get a logfile, which lists all systemcalls, etc.:
> 
> $ strace -o gmplayer.strace gmplayer
> 
> This file looks like:
> 
> ,----
> | execve("/usr/bin/gmplayer", ["gmplayer"], [/* 36 vars */]) = 0
> | uname({sys="Linux", node="skuld", ...}) = 0
> | brk(0)                                  = 0x821dedc
> | open("/usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
> | read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`\n\0\000"..., 1024) = 1024
> | fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10280, ...}) = 0
> | old_mmap(NULL, 13404, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40016000
> | mprotect(0x40019000, 1116, PROT_NONE)   = 0
> | old_mmap(0x40019000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x2000) = 0x40019000
> | close(3)                                = 0
> | open("/usr/lib/libartsc.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
> | ... and so on ...
> `----
> 
> I know grep for all occurences of "open":
> 
> ,----
> | open("/usr/lib/libartsdsp.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
> | open("/usr/lib/libartsc.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
> | open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)       = 3
> | open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> | open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
> | open("/usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
> | open("/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3
> | [...]
> | [... lots of libs following ...]
> | [...]
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/config", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/config", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> | open("/home/oweh/.Xauthority", O_RDONLY) = 4
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/codecs.conf", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font/font.desc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font//arpi_osd_a.raw", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font//arpi_osd_b.raw", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font//arpi_progress_a.raw", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font//arpi_progress_b.raw", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font//arial-12-00_a.raw", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/font//arial-12-00_b.raw", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5
> | open("/usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> | open("/home/oweh/.mplayer/Skin/default/skin", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> `----
> 
> Note the last two lines! You can clearly see, what gmplayer is trying to
> open and where its problem lies.
> 
> Yeah, this was easy, just put a skin (or a symlink) into Skin/default,
> and gmplayer will be happy.
> 
> S!
> 
> -- 
> BOFH excuse #363:
> 
> Out of cards on drive D:
> 
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Thanks everyone, but I figured it out. (my skin was owned by root :) ) 
Also, I don't suppose anyone knows why the skins don't efficiently make
use of the "skin browser" capability?


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