[MPlayer-users] Trouble running mplayer as user

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 16 January 2004 at 21:01, Alexander Beurts wrote:
> HI,
> I am very persistent in using linux but have run into a brick
> wall trying to figure out what is wrong with how I installed
> Mplayer. I use Fedora Core1 in combination with Mozilla 1.4.1,
> and installed the latest rpms for mplayer:
> 
> mencoder-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm
> mplayer-codecs-extralite-1.0-1.i386.rpm
> mplayer-common-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm
> mplayer-gui-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm
> mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
> mplayer-vidix-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm
> mplayer-vidix-radeon-1.0pre3-1.i386.rpm
> 
> As well as the plugin:
> mplayerplug-in-1.0-1.fc1.i386.rpm
> 
> I installed mencoder, mplayer-common and mplayer-gui using
> rpm-Uvh with root privileges
> 
> The problems I'm having are :
> 1) Cannot run gmplayer as a user.

What do you mean you can't?

> 2) I can run it as root but with no sound at all

Install the mplayer package and see if the command-line version
works OK.

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