newbie: howto install mplayer codecs
Roger Grosswiler
roger at gwch.net
Fri Mar 31 17:21:47 UTC 2006
Am Freitag, den 31.03.2006, 12:52 -0500 schrieb Nat Gross:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 17:48 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
> > > First off, I do not know what options to use.
> >
> > Generally, I've not had to use any.
> >
> > > Secondly, for each movie type I will have to use diferent parameters?
> >
> > I haven't had to do so. "mplayer something.avi" "mplayer something.mpg"
> > "mplayer something.mov" have all worked just as simply as that.
> >
> > > Third, its not part of the gui any longer; can't right-click and
> > > choose 'play in mplayer'.
> >
> > There should also be some sort of mplayer-gui package (or command, it
> > might be included in the base package). I haven't installed mplayer the
> > way that you did, though; but it works in the same way once installed.
>
> >Hey,
>
> >the only parameter you have to give is the filename of the movie you wanna
> >watch: mplayer moviename.mpg -> thats all....
>
> >why not using mplayer in the gui? you can open it should be soemewhere in
> >the multimedia section of gnome...it doesnt seem that you installed the
> >gui... yum -y install mplayer-gui, this should make it available in
> gnome too...
>
> Ok. It works via 'mplayer <filename>' and that includes avi files
> (something that didn't work before for me).
>
> However, I am having gui problems. Besides not appearing in the
> right-click menu, entering just 'mplayer' should bring up a gui.
> yum is having a problem installing the gui:
> -------------------
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Installing: mplayer-gui ######################### [1/1]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default: cpio : rename
>
> Installed: mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.37.pre7try2.lvn5
> Complete!
> --------------------
> It said complete!. Nada.
> By the way 'ls /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default' shows 0 files.
>
> thanks
> nat
>
Nat,
No right-click-menu.
go to Applications-Multimedia-Mplayer
Roger
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