newbie: howto install mplayer codecs

[John Wendel]

Nat Gross wrote:
>>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
> 


The gui version is named "gmplayer".

Regards,

John