[MPlayer-users] Mplayer Skin folder -- Where and Why?

Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com
Wed Mar 3 04:34:39 CET 2004


Dear Wieslaw and friends:

My deep thanks. But Mplayer still won't launch. It comes up for a second, i.e. 
it flickers, you can see a small dialogue box with "Error" at the top. But 
then it dies.

Here is the data:

1)

sher at Dell:~$ cd .mplayer
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ ls
codecs  config  font  registry  Skin  win32
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd Skin
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ ls
Blue
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ cd Blue
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin/Blue$ ls -la
total 314
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1272 2004-03-02 17:45 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 sher     sher           72 2004-03-02 21:28 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2264 2004-03-02 17:05 about.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1627 2004-03-02 17:05 bareqb.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1753 2004-03-02 17:05 barexit.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1691 2004-03-02 17:05 barffwd.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1612 2004-03-02 17:05 barfwd.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1827 2004-03-02 17:05 barmute.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1815 2004-03-02 17:05 barplay.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1642 2004-03-02 17:05 barrev.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1699 2004-03-02 17:05 barrevv.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1569 2004-03-02 17:05 barstop.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         997 2004-03-02 17:05 barzoom.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         253 2004-03-02 17:05 eqb.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1961 2004-03-02 17:05 exit.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2023 2004-03-02 17:05 font.fnt
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1347 2004-03-02 17:05 font-pl.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        3158 2004-03-02 17:05 forward.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1650 2004-03-02 17:05 load.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       29639 2004-03-02 17:05 main.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       26005 2004-03-02 17:05 main-silver.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       14606 2004-03-02 17:05 menu.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       15458 2004-03-02 17:05 menus.png
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ cd ..
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd ..
sher at Dell:~$ cd .mplayer
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ ls -la
total 18
drwxr-xr-x    6 sher     sher          192 2004-03-02 20:00 .
drwxr-xr-x   40 sher     sher         2416 2004-03-02 21:30 ..
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff        3032 2004-03-02 16:58 codecs
-rw-r--r--    1 sher     sher          138 2004-03-02 21:30 config
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          224 2004-03-02 17:10 font
-rw-r--r--    1 sher     sher          237 2004-03-02 20:16 registry
drwxr-xr-x    3 sher     sher           72 2004-03-02 21:28 Skin
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         3032 2004-03-02 17:16 win32
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd Skin
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ ls -la
total 3
drwxr-xr-x    3 sher     sher           72 2004-03-02 21:28 .
drwxr-xr-x    6 sher     sher          192 2004-03-02 20:00 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1272 2004-03-02 17:45 Blue
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ cd Blue
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin/Blue$ ls -la
total 314
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1272 2004-03-02 17:45 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 sher     sher           72 2004-03-02 21:28 ..
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2264 2004-03-02 17:05 about.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1627 2004-03-02 17:05 bareqb.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1753 2004-03-02 17:05 barexit.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1691 2004-03-02 17:05 barffwd.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1612 2004-03-02 17:05 barfwd.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1827 2004-03-02 17:05 barmute.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1815 2004-03-02 17:05 barplay.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1642 2004-03-02 17:05 barrev.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1699 2004-03-02 17:05 barrevv.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1569 2004-03-02 17:05 barstop.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         997 2004-03-02 17:05 barzoom.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         253 2004-03-02 17:05 eqb.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1961 2004-03-02 17:05 exit.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2023 2004-03-02 17:05 font.fnt
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1347 2004-03-02 17:05 font-pl.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        3158 2004-03-02 17:05 forward.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1650 2004-03-02 17:05 load.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       29639 2004-03-02 17:05 main.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       26005 2004-03-02 17:05 main-silver.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       14606 2004-03-02 17:05 menu.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       15458 2004-03-02 17:05 menus.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1584 2004-03-02 17:05 minimize.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         378 2004-03-02 17:05 mute.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2251 2004-03-02 17:05 next.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       18899 2004-03-02 17:05 playbar.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         292 2004-03-02 17:05 playlist.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        3002 2004-03-02 17:05 play.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         440 2004-03-02 17:05 pos.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1926 2004-03-02 17:05 prefs.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2153 2004-03-02 17:05 prev.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1283 2004-03-02 17:05 progres-long2c.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        1289 2004-03-02 17:05 progres-long2d.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        2779 2004-03-02 17:05 rev.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         544 2004-03-02 17:05 skinb.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff        3320 2004-03-02 17:05 stop.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff       59254 2004-03-02 17:05 subblue.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         237 2004-03-02 17:05 subload.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         647 2004-03-02 17:05 symbols2.png
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         437 2004-03-02 17:05 symbols.fnt
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         153 2004-03-02 17:05 symbolsg.fnt
-r--r--r--    1 root     staff         397 2004-03-02 17:05 zoom-3.png
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin/Blue$

2) config file:

sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cat config
# Write your default config options here!

skin = </home/sher/.mplayer/Skin/Blue>

# <skin name> means the name of that directory too.


sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$

Can you see what might be preventing Mplayer from launching?

Thanks so much again.

Benjamin



On 03/02/2004 09:27 pm, Wieslaw Kierbedz wrote:
> Użytkownik Benjamin Sher napisał:
> >Here is the output from my console:
> >
> >sher at Dell:~$ cd .mplayer
> >sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ ls
> >codecs  config  font  registry  Skin  win32
> >sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd Skin
> >sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ ls
> >default
> >sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ cd default
> >sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin/default$ ls
> >about.png    barstop.png  main-silver.png  pos.png             subload.png
> >bareqb.png   barzoom.png  menu.png         prefs.png          
> > symbols2.png barexit.png  eqb.png      menus.png        prev.png         
> >   symbols.fnt barffwd.png  exit.png     minimize.png    
> > progres-long2c.png  symbolsg.fnt barfwd.png   font.fnt     mute.png      
> >   progres-long2d.png  zoom-3.png barmute.png  font-pl.png  next.png      
> >   rev.png
> >barplay.png  forward.png  playbar.png      skinb.png
> >barrev.png   load.png     playlist.png     stop.png
> >barrevv.png  main.png     play.png         subblue.png
>
> Here is mine:
> ls /home/syntetyk/.mplayer/Skin/Blue/
> about.png       barstop.png   main.png
> play.png                  skinb.png
> bareqb.png     barzoom.png  main-silver.png   pos.png
> stop.png
> barexit.png     eqb.png          menu.png            preferences2.png
> subblue.png
> barffwd.png   exit.png          menus.png           prev.png
>      subload.png
> barfwd.png    font.fnt            minimize.png      progres-long2c.png
> symbols2.png
> barmute.png   font-pl.png     mute.png             progres-long2d.png
> symbols.fnt
> barplay.png    forward.png   next.png              README
> symbolsg.fnt
> barrev.png      icons              playbar.png
> rev.png                     VERSION
> barrevv.png    load.png         playlist.png
> skin                           zoom-3.png
>
> ^^^^
> I can not see "skin" file in yours.
> That is main configuration file for skin I think.
>
> Try to get some other from mplayer site and put in the same directory.
> Maybe yours is too old simply?

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