MPlayer problems

[Olaf Olson]

Paul. I hacked a little on my own system, as I do have mplayer loaded, 
but never really used it, as xine seemed a better tool. When I started 
gmplayer at a shell prompt, I got several errors, although none were 
severe enough to prevent it from starting. What I found was that mplayer 
exists in /etc/mplayer, but there is another, /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0 
which has different stuff and most of the missing files for my 
installation. you might try searching for all the necessary stuff on 
your machine.

Olaf

Paul Higgins (U of M) wrote:

>OK, here's what I got:
>
>$ gmplayer
>MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
>Illegal instruction
>
>Any ideas? 
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>>Message: 5
>>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:06:40 -0800
>>From: Olaf Olson <oolson at hadleyconnection.com>
>>Subject: Re: MPlayer problems
>>To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
>> <yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>Message-ID: <43C74370.9000202 at hadleyconnection.com>
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>>Paul,
>>
>>I suspect that mplayer should be in your path, so try typing gmplayer
>>(Graphics MPlayer) in a shell. This will at least give you the errors
>>that are preventing it from actually running.
>>
>>Olaf
>>
>>Paul Higgins (U of M) wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Is anyone running MPlayer successfully?  I successfully downloaded the
>>>package using yum (from freshrpms), and it shows up in the K menu. 
>>>However, when I try launching it, the little hourglass icon just spins
>>>for a minute and then quits.
>>>      
>>>
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