[MPlayer-users] Problem displaying the gui

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 11 November 2004 at 02:06, Michael Saltz wrote:
> I've build and installed on a Solaris box. The problem is, I do not see
> any gui displayed. The only information that seems strange is, that
> mplayer seems to be trying to find a file, gui.conf, which seems to be
> nowhere to be found. Following is environment information:
[...]
> I do not see any gui displayed. I only see the following printed after
> starting:
> 
> MPlayer 1.0pre5-3.4.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> 
> CPU: Sun Sparc
> Reading config file /home/msaltz/player/etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
> Warning unknown option fb at line 80
> Reading config file /home/msaltz/.mplayer/config
> [cfg] read config file: /home/msaltz/.mplayer/gui.conf
> Reading config file /home/msaltz/.mplayer/gui.conf: No such file or
> directory
> vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
> display)
> Reading /home/msaltz/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/home/msaltz/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directoryReading
> /home/msaltz/player/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs
> font: can't open file: /home/msaltz/.mplayer/font/font.desc
> Font /home/msaltz/player/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded
> successfully! (206 chars)
> Using usleep() timing
> Can't open input config file /home/msaltz/.mplayer/input.conf: No such
> file or directory
> Input config file /home/msaltz/player/etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed: 53
> binds
> SKIN dir 1: '/home/msaltz/.mplayer/Skin'
> SKIN dir 2: '/home/msaltz/player/share/mplayer/Skin'
> 
> 
> ----------
> Thats it! at this point, it seems to go to sleep. If I do a ^c, mplayer
> stops and does display an gui error message for interupt, so it does
> seem to be able to do some gui displays.

You do have a skin installed in one of the above paths, don't you?
Anyway, I'd suggest stracing (or trussing, in solaris-speak) gmplayer
to see where it hangs.

R.

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