saunterer Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 open a terminal (xterm, rxvt, aterm, Eterm, gnome-terminal, konsole) and run; gmplayer ....any errors? Post them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saunterer Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Thanks! I'll give that a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 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 ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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