[MPlayer-users] Mplayer setup advice needed ...

[Loren Merritt]

Those aren't errors. You don't need codecs.conf or input.conf, and
font.desc is only for subtitles.

As for why it's not working: *.ram are usually text files containing a url
to play from. As far as I can tell, mplayer can't parse the ram file, but
if you give the url on the command line, it works.

--Loren Merritt

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Adam Bogacki wrote:

> Hi, when trying to play video ('mplayer news.ram')
> or audio ('mplayer newsradio.ram') - I get the output below.
>
> I'd appreciate help in getting it working.
>
> As I understand it, the main problems are
>
> (1)
>
> > Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
>
> (2)
>
> > font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> > font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
>
> and
>
> (3)
>
> > Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file
> > or directory
>
> How do I fix these ?
>
> Adam Bogacki,
> afb at paradise.net.nz
>
> > Tux:/home/adam# mplayer news.ram
> > MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> >
> > CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville 732.0 MHz
> > (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
> > Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
> > CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> > Compiled for Debian.
> > Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> > Reading config file /root/.mplayer/config
> > Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> > '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 64 audio & 171 video codecs
> > font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> > font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
> > Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
> > Can't open input config file /root/.mplayer/input.conf: No such file
> > or directory
> > Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53 binds
> > Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
> > Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such device
> > Can't init input joystick
> > Setting up LIRC support...
> > mplayer: could not connect to socket
> > mplayer: No such file or directory
> > Failed to open LIRC support.
> > You will not be able to use your remote control.
> >
> > Playing news.ram.
> > Cache fill:  0.01% (59 bytes)
> >
> > Exiting... (End of file)
> > Tux:/home/adam#
> >
>
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