[MPlayer-users] mplayer crashes

[Thomas Martinsen]

Don wrote:

> Well, I've ran Linux since 1998.
> However, I am a user.
> I'm use to clicking on;
> Start, Multimedia, Mplayer and have it open.
> I then select a movie and wala... a movie plays.
> Now it does nothing.
> That is why I was trying to open it in a console
>
> My goal is to get kdetv working.
>
> dlw
>
> Thomas Martinsen wrote:
>
>> Don wrote:
>>
>>> I copied codecs.conf to /etc.
>>> Now, this is what happens:
>>>
>>> [don at localhost ~]$ mplayer
>>> MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>>>
>>> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon MP/XP Thoroughbred 1194 MHz 
>>> (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
>>> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
>>> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>>> Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
>>> To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
>>> --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
>>> Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
>>> Reading config file /home/don/.mplayer/config
>>> Reading /home/don/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
>>> Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename
>>>
>>> Don wrote:
>>>
>>>> /home/don/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
>>>>
>>>> How is this solved?
>>>>
>>>> dlw
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> I see you are not quite used to linux programs.
>> Try mplayer <filename>. (You point it to a movie you want to play)
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If you want that, try
gmplayer

Its the gui frontend for mplayer.