[MPlayer-users]Installing MPlayer SVN plus extra libs

[Corey Hickey]

Jonny Barnes wrote:
> OK, well, has anyone got a foolproof guide to compiling MPlayer, because at
> the moment I can't even open Matroska files.
> 
> Also issuing mplayer at the terminal retuns:
> 
> jonny at jonny-ubuntu:~$ mplayer
> MPlayer dev-SVN-r22035-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ (Family: 6, Model: 8, Stepping: 1)
> CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE
> 
> regardless of what is after mplayer (eg --help), nothing is shown.

It appears that one of your mplayer config files specifies
really-quiet=yes. Check ~/.mplayer/config and /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf,
or wherever your mplayer is built to check for a config file.

If that's not it, maybe your shell has an alias set.

-Corey