[MPlayer-users] Upgrade issues I am puzzled about

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 20 November 2005 17:22, John McKee wrote:
> I initially had MPlayer-1.0pre4 installed.  Apparently, I left off the option for it to play realaudio files when I ran configure.  That was all that didn't work, for me.

It should play rm files by default with no extra options required to configure,
but it helps to have the binary codecs installed first.

> How do I get the keyboard control working again?  Why did it work when 1.04 was installed and 1.07 was merely started from the source directory?

Try checking /usr/local/etc/mplayer for any old codecs.conf files,
input.conf or similar left behind. Then check your ~/.mplayer for
the same.

> Also, I musr be doing something wrong with the gui.  When I first started gmplayer, there was a complaint about no default skin.  So, I copied the downloaded the latest skin file and installed all the components into a subdirectory named default.  That stopped the error message, but gmplayer doesn't actually play anything.  When I start gmplayer and include a .rm file on the command line, nothing happens (no gui opens up).  The last line that displays on the console is:

It might be blocking trying to open the audio output. You could try do the
same for the GUI, delete ~/.mplayer/gui.conf to get default settings again.

Perhaps make a backup of it first.