[MPlayer-users] Mplayer won't launch with new tarballs

Benjamin Sher delphi123 at zebra.net
Wed Mar 3 06:13:58 CET 2004


Dear friends:

I have recently done a complete, fresh install of my Xandros 2.0/Debian 
system. Everything went very smoothly. All tarballs installed perfectly. All, 
that is, except Mplayer. So, I deleted ALL of my mplayer tarballs, downloaded 
brand new ones  (mplayer 1.0pre3) from mplayerhq.com and started from 
scratch. The installation of Mplayer (./configure --enable-gui 
--enable-win32) as well as mplayerplug-in went smoothly without a hitch. 
EXCEPT for one little problem: Mplayer still won't launch. When I click on 
its Desktop Shortcut (executable at /usr/bin/local/gmplayer), it tries to 
launch. You see a flash (looks like a small box with the word "Error" on it), 
and then it dies. 

Here is the output from the console:

1) for "gmplayer"

sher at Dell:~$ gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 1795 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/sher/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/sher/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/sher/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/sher/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/sher/.mplayer/
codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/
mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
Font /home/sher/.mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (mplayer should be setuid root or /
dev/rtc should be readable by the user.)
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/sher/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file or 
directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file 
or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
SKIN dir 1: '/home/sher/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'
[skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).
sher at Dell:~$

I renamed "win32" "codecs", but still Mplayer refused to launch.

2) mplayer files:

sher at Dell:~$ gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre3-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team

CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster 1795 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

Reading config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf: No such file or 
directory
Reading config file /home/sher/.mplayer/config
[cfg] read config file: /home/sher/.mplayer/gui.conf
Reading config file /home/sher/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Reading /home/sher/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/home/sher/.mplayer/
codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/usr/local/etc/
mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
sher at Dell:~$ cd .mplayer
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ ls -la
total 15
drwxr-xr-x    5 sher     sher          168 2004-03-02 23:05 .
drwxr-xr-x   40 sher     sher         2416 2004-03-02 23:05 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 sher     sher           44 2004-03-02 22:14 config
drwxr-xr-x    2 sher     sher          224 2004-03-02 22:18 font
-rw-r--r--    1 sher     sher          237 2004-03-02 22:57 registry
drwxr-xr-x    3 sher     sher           72 2004-03-02 22:23 Skin
drwxr-xr-x    2 sher     sher         3032 2004-03-02 22:26 win32
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd font
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/font$ ls
font.desc         iso-8859-1-b.raw   osd-mplayer-b.raw
iso-8859-1-a.raw  osd-mplayer-a.raw
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/font$ cd ..
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
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
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin/Blue$ cd ..
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ cd ..
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd win32
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/win32$ ls
acelpdec.ax   huffyuv.dll   msgsm32.acm                  ubv263d+.ax
alf2cd.acm    i263_32.drv   msh261.drv                   ubvmp4d.dll
asusasv2.dll  iccvid.dll    msms001.vwp                  ultimo.dll
asusasvd.dll  icmw_32.dll   msnaudio.acm                 vgpix32d.dll
ativcr2.dll   imaadp32.acm  msrle32.dll                  vid_3ivX.xa
atrac3.acm    imc32.acm     msscds32.ax                  vivog723.acm
atrc.so.6.0   ir32_32.dll   msvidc32.dll                 voxmsdec.ax
avimszh.dll   ir41_32.dll   mvoiced.vwp                  vp31vfw.dll
avizlib.dll   ir50_32.dll   nsrt2432.acm                 vp4vfw.dll
CLRVIDDC.DLL  ivvideo.dll   pclepim1.dll                 vssh264core.dll
clrviddd.dll  jp2avi.dll    qdv.dll                      vssh264dec.dll
cook.so.6.0   l3codeca.acm  qpeg32.dll                   vssh264.dll
CtWbJpg.DLL   l3codecx.ax   qtmlClient.dll               vsslight.dll
ddnt.so.6.0   LCodcCMP.dll  QuickTimeEssentials.qtx      vsswlt.dll
divxa32.acm   lhacm.acm     QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx  wma9dmod.dll
divx_c32.ax   m3jp2k32.dll  QuickTime.qts                wmadmod.dll
divxc32.dll   m3jpeg32.dll  rt32dcmp.dll                 wmspdmod.dll
divxdec.ax    m3jpegdec.ax  sipr.so.6.0                  wmv8ds32.ax
divx.dll      mcdvd_32.dll  sp5x_32.dll                  wmv9dmod.dll
dnet.so.6.0   mcmjpg32.dll  tm20dec.ax                   wmvdmod.dll
drv2.so.6.0   mpg4c32.dll   tokf.so.6.0                  wmvds32.ax
drv3.so.6.0   mpg4ds32.ax   tokr.so.6.0
drv4.so.6.0   msadp32.acm   tsccvid.dll
dspr.so.6.0   msg711.acm    tssoft32.acm
sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/win32$

Just to be sure, I made a duplicate of "win32" and put it in /usr/local/lib 
and also put a duplicate of "font" and "Skin/Blue" in /usr/local/share/
mplayer.

But Mplayer still won't launch. I am at my wits' end. I just can't figure this 
out. It worked perfectly in my last installation with identical 
configuration. Would really appreciate your help.

Thank you very much.

Benjamin






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Benjamin Sher
delphi123 at zebra.net




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