[MPlayer-users] Mplayer and Windows XP

[Henry]

> To the group :
> If needed I can rewrite it in english, just ask. But it is far easier in
> french for me.
>

Those instructions are for those who wish to compile their own gui mplayer
from
source code. You downloaded a binary version from sourceforge.net.

You will  need to download a skin  to use the gui: without the skin the gui
will fail.

 http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/skins/Blue-1.7.tar.bz2

It  might not hurt to download the codecs also:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20071007.zip

You should  read the instructions on the download page.
But usually you just make your skins directory and copy the contents from
the Blue..
inside there. And you unzip the contents of the codecs  inside the codecs
directory.
This structure might work. Haven't checked it out.  But if you'll run the
program from
the command line  it should reveal messages about where the files can be
found by
default. Then you can make the appropriate directories and place the files
in the
places where the program will find them by default.


c:\Program Files\MplayerSherpya\codecs
                       ...........................\docs
                       ...........................\fonts
                      ............................\mplayer\skins\ ......

The following should bring up the gui mplayer  if everything is installed
in the correct
place and the mplayer.exe was compiled with gui support. But it's quite
possible that
the file you have downloaded does not have gui support. If so, when you run
the following
from the command line,  you should see a message that the program was not
compiled
with gui support.

     mplayer -gui