[MPlayer-users] Cannot install

[Thomas Hulslander]

Forget this. I am sorry. Getting my problems mixed up. The touch command
was for xmms. My apologies to the list members

I will stop this thread and repost. My sincerest apologies.

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 10:41, Thomas Hulslander wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> It would appear that the file structure is messed up here.
> 
> in /usr/share/mplayer I have only Skin
> Within Skin I have Default
> Within Default I have font.fnt; font.png; skin; symbols.fnt; and a bunch
> of .png files. I am fairly sure that I caused this by doing "touch
> default" in the mplayer directory. (I did this because I was fairly sure
> I had the problem with not being able to change skins. I had done it on
> a previous install and it worked, but apparently I did something wrong
> this time) Should I rearrange this file structure? and if so, could
> someone please advise what belongs where?
> 
> On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 09:32, Thomas Hulslander wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > Dominik,
> > 
> > Have just run the rpm -ivh mplayer-gui-0.90rc3-2.i386.rpm and it did not
> > tell me it was already installed. hmmm... Thought I had done that.
> > Sorry.
> > 
> > I then ran rpm --rebuilddb /usr/lib/rpmdb and it went successfully, I
> > guess.
> > 
> > I still do not see mplayer in any menu in the gui, but I guess I can
> > live with that.
> > 
> > Problem now is when I run gmplayer from command line I get the
> > following:
> > [root at localhost MPlayer]# gmplayer
> > Using GNU internationalization
> > Original domain: messages
> > Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
> > Current domain: mplayer
> > Current dirname: /usr/share/locale
> > 
> > 
> > MPlayer 0.90rc3-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
> > 
> > CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 PM Palomino/Athlon MP
> > Multiprocessor/Athlon XP eXtreme Performance (Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
> > 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 /root/.mplayer/config
> > [cfg] read config file: /root/.mplayer/gui.conf
> > Reading config file /root/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or directory
> > vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local
> > display)
> > Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open
> > '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> > Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 130 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 : 50 binds
> > SKIN dir 1: '/root/.mplayer/Skin'
> > SKIN dir 2: '/usr/share/mplayer/Skin'
> > [x11] NET style stay on top ( layer 0 ). Using state
> > _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP.
> > New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
> > Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
> > subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
> > [x11] NET style stay on top ( layer 0 ). Using state
> > _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP.
> > [x11] NET style stay on top ( layer 0 ). Using state
> > _NET_WM_STATE_STAYS_ON_TOP.
> > New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
> > Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
> > subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
> > 
> > Looks like I am getting there, but still have problems. I do appreciate
> > your help, Dominik, et al.
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 21:56, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > On Saturday, 01 February 2003, Thomas Hulslander wrote:
> > > > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> > > > I really appreciate your help...
> > > > I did do that a few minutes ago and it said preparing XXXXX... 100%
> > > > and then it looked like it was complete, as it said 1:mplayer, but then
> > > > my shell prompt never returned. Again, I quit the session, which I know
> > > > is not good, but... it appeared like it was done and wasn't going to do
> > > > any more.
> > > 
> > > Strange. Try rpm --rebuilddb to clean up your rpm database.
> > > 
> > > > So, to summarize, I have run the rpm for common and also non-gui. I
> > > > still cannot see mplayer anywhere on the KDE gui.
> > > 
> > > If you don't install mplayer-gui, you won't have the gmplayer binary
> > > and the menu entry.
> > > 
> > > > I am willing to undo everything and start over if it's the right thing
> > > > to do, but I will need to know how to un-install.
> > > > 
> > > > scratching head here. Please don't give up on me.
> > > 
> > > Hmmm. Why don't you read rpm manual first?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > MPlayer RPMs maintainer: http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/
> > > "The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy."
> > >         -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows"
> > > 
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