MPlayer problems

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Paul:

I merely mentioned a potential problem with yum.  Which could range 
from it being directed to download from old or incomplete repositories 
to problems in it's own code.
If it functioned and you said it reported no errors, maybe you should 
see in yum.conf for where it is going and update the information there 
so that it is going instead to the most recent and current 
repositories.  The more current repositories are posted somewhere; 
certainly someone on this list can help with that.  You can check 
against that.

Meanwhile although I'm a fan of xine, I do understand your being 
focussed on a mplayer.  However, keep on slugging things out regarding 
mplayer and you may come up with something which satisfies you.  
Otherwise, if you want to get moving onto whatever you intend to do -- 
you may discover xine to be more than flexible.

This might be a no brainer, and obvious, but did you try doing:

$ cd /usr/bin
$ ./mplayer

Just a thought, before you throw up your hands and go for xine.  I'm 
sure you realize that some programs need to be started with ./ from 
within the directory where they can be executed (in this case 
/usr/bin).  The details of why they are invoked differently requires a 
different kind of discussion, but you can look that up elsewhere.

Best of luck...

On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:13 AM, Paul Higgins (U of M) wrote:

> Here's the results of further troubleshooting.  The initial thing that 
> was
> suggested was to try starting it from the command line:
> $ gmplayer
> MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.3 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
> Illegal instruction
>
> Then I tried:
> $ whereis mplayer
> mplayer: /usr/bin/mplayer /etc/mplayer /usr/lib/mplayer 
> /usr/share/mplayer /usr/share/man/man1/mplayer.1.gz
>
> I haven't tried "# find / -name "mpl*" -print > findmplayer" yet.  I 
> did check
> on yum updates, and I have the latest version.
>
> I guess I'll uninstall MPlayer using yum and then get xine (and maybe
> eventually also compile MPlayer from source).  So is something wrong 
> with
> yum, then?  Because when I was installing MPlayer using yum, everything
> appeared to go smoothly.  I never got any error messages.