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

[Paul TT]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:13:58 -0600
Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:
> 
> 1) for "gmplayer"
> 
> 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:~$

you have to manually install a Skin, at least, into one of those dirs, to be able to use gmplayer (for instance /home/sher/.mplayer/Skin) extract a skin there and make a link called default to its folder, or configure it in .mplayer/config options file
 
> 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

copy codecs.conf from mplayer sources dir to .mplayer/


> sher at Dell:~/.mplayer$ cd Skin
> sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ ls
> Blue
> sher at Dell:~/.mplayer/Skin$ cd Blue
> 

do:
ln -s Blue default