You need to make sure all the skin files are in the skins folder, so you need to move everything out of the Blue folder into the directory before it.

Thanks Jeremy. I followed your suggestion but to no avail :-( The problem persists. Following is the messege this time for the command "gmplayer" : MPlayer dev-CVS-060426-11:43-3.4.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Celeron D Prescott; Pentium D/XE Smithfield; Xeon Nocona,Irwindale (Family:15, Stepping: 9) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts. [skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not readable. Skin not found (default). Regards, - Atish .