Mplayer won't load

[saunterer]

Here's some background information to emphasize how much of a novice I am...Yesterday, for the first time ever, with no linux experience at all (except watching my Dad on RedHat several years ago) I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a blank hard drive. With the help of a Mandrake savvy friend of mine, I was able to get through the installation process with very few bruises along the way. I plan on doing a dual boot with Win2K (my current evil OS) on the master in the future after I get a power supply cable, but that's another story.

Anyhow, I'm running fluxbox right now and when I navigate to mplayer to play a DVD, I click and nothing happens. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, but it just does not want to work. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[bvc]

open a terminal (xterm, rxvt, aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole) and run;

gmplayer

 

....any errors? Post them.

[saunterer]

Thanks! I'll give that a shot.

[DragonMage]

Also, you may need to install dvdcss libraries in order to play copyrighted dvds. You can get the mandrake rpms from PLF ( http://plf.zarb.org ).

[chris z]

another thought..........

 

i'm not at the Linux box to check the exact place for this, but if you right click on the MPlayer icon/link & choose properties, under one of the property tabs is an option to "run as different user" & "run in terminal". make sure those aren't checked. i had the same problem way back when with MPlayer & somehow my "run as different user" box was checked, which made it run in the background as root when i tried to run it as user & that being the case, the GUI wouldn't come up.

 

Chris

[aRTee]

Setup your sources and do

urpmi libdvdcss

would be my guess. (I have plenty of info and links on my website)

 

Try to play any other thing with mplayer. A divx/xvid or so. If that also doesn't work, the problem is mplayer related. If it can play everything except a dvd, then do the urpmi command after setting up sources.