[MPlayer-users] gmplayer not working

[Andrej Ricnik-Bay]

On 5/23/05, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:44:42AM +1200, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> > I have had a problem for quite a while now, using gmplayer
> > on slackware (9.0 to 10.1) (MPlayer 0.99 through 1.0pre7).
> > The most recent approach is using gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4
> 
> The 3.3 gcc series is not exactly what I would call reliable... If you
> have the possibility use either 2.95 or 3.4.3+
I don't know - all my other apps seem quite happy ;)
I may give 3.4.3 a shot, though, if I have lots of spare time
at hand.

> Just because there was another report: Gui + arts will normally not
> work, make sure you don't use that combination!
I didn't.  Using fluxbox, no arts anywhere.

> And do you really mean when starting gmplayer or when starting to play
> something?
Yes, indeed, when STARTING it ... it never displays anything but the 
notification that I cancelled it when I press Ctrl-C

> > Using
> > time strace -o mplayer.txt gmplayer
> the full output of gmplayer -v would be more useful...
$ gmplayer -v
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2



vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
xscreensaver_disable: xscreensaver wid=8388609.
85 audio & 196 video codecs
CommandLine: '-v'
init_freetype
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/tink/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/tink/.mplayer/font/font.desc
Font /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars)
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using Linux hardware RTC timing (1024Hz).
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/tink/.mplayer/input.conf'
Can't open input config file /home/tink/.mplayer/input.conf: No such
file or directory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No
such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x23, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x24, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x25, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x26, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x27, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x28, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x29, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
vo: X11 truecolor visual 0x2a, depth 16, R:F800 G:7E0 B:1F
get_path('Skin') -> '/home/tink/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 1: '/home/tink/.mplayer/Skin'
SKIN dir 2: '/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin'


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: unknown


> Also the contents of the config files _might_ help (also try moving the
> .mplayer dir away).
Same result.

> Greetings,
> Reimar DÖffinger
Cheers,
Andrej