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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: shuiend on 6 November 2002, 05:10

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: shuiend on 6 November 2002, 05:10

after searching through all the old threadas about mplayer i cannot find anything on how to get the GUI to work. i install the rpms for mplayer and the command prompt version works but how do i get the damned gui to work. i install those rpms and even got them off apt-get and they dotn work. i expect void main to know this since he ha been the one telling everyone to get it. i am using RedHat 8 just so u know

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: slave on 6 November 2002, 05:51

Look in the "start menu" it should have added it under Extras > Sound and Video > Mplayer

Or type "gmplayer" from the command prompt.

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: flap on 6 November 2002, 05:53

what do you mean by you're not able to get it to work? any error messages?

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: Doctor V on 6 November 2002, 08:35

I have had this same problem.  I used the --enable-gui option when configuring and it didn't work saying that GTK 1.2 was needed.  I have 2.0, Mandrake 2.0 does not.  Lets hope Mplayer makes it so the GUI works with GTK 2.0 as well soon.

V

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: distortion on 6 November 2002, 21:18

go here; http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/#gui (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/#gui)

i've just gotton the gui to work about a week ago, so if you have more questions, i just might be able to answer them.

oh yeah, post any error messages that you're getting.

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: shuiend on 6 November 2002, 15:21

when i click on the menu for mplayer or tpye gmplayer in the command prompt nothing happens. I dont get any error messages or anything. Which i think is the strange part. I know i have it installed b/c i have tryed reinstalling it from rpms and apt-get.

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: distortion on 7 November 2002, 04:58

you said you were running red hat 8. i seem to remember them saying in their news section that the version of mplayer that came with a certain red hat release didn't work. i'm trying to think back, and i'm pretty sure that it was mplayer that said that...although i can't find it anymore. they have a lot of news on their site.

why don't you just go and download it? only this time, get the tarball. it's easier to deal with, IMO.

Title: MPLAYER
Post by: voidmain on 7 November 2002, 06:57

Mplayer doesn't come with RedHat, but you can download the perfectly built RPMs here:

http://psyche.freshrpms.net/list.html (http://psyche.freshrpms.net/list.html)

Get mplayer-skins and mplayer. Or if you have "apt" installed just:

# apt-get install mplayer-skins

and it'll download and install both RPMs automatically.