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heather1113
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I am confused about something and could use some help. When I try to open Mplayer crashes/closes right away. Just in case you need to know I have the mplayer-gui, mplayerplugin, and mplayerskins. When I tried to open it from the console this is what I get

[heather@applwibas02-l10-1025 heather]$ mplayer
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2



Warning unknown option "ao at line 2
85 audio & 196 video codecs
Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
-vo <drv[:dev]>  select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a list)
-ao <drv[:dev]>  select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for a list)
vcd://<trackno>   play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount)
dvd://<titleno>   play DVD title from device instead of plain file
-alang/-slang    select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code)
-ss <timepos>    seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
-nosound         do not play sound
-fs              fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)
-x <x> -y <y>    set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
-sub <file>      specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)
-playlist <file> specify playlist file
-vid x -aid y    select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
-fps x -srate y  change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
-pp <quality>    enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)
-framedrop       enable frame dropping (for slow machines)

Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
<-  or  ->       seek backward/forward 10 seconds
up or down       seek backward/forward  1 minute
pgup or pgdown   seek backward/forward 10 minutes
< or >           step backward/forward in playlist
p or SPACE       pause movie (press any key to continue)
q or ESC         stop playing and quit program
+ or -           adjust audio delay by +/- 0.1 second
o                cycle OSD mode:  none / seekbar / seekbar + timer
* or /           increase or decrease PCM volume
z or x           adjust subtitle delay by +/- 0.1 second
r or t           adjust subtitle position up/down, also see -vf expand

* * * SEE THE MAN PAGE FOR DETAILS, FURTHER (ADVANCED) OPTIONS AND KEYS * * *

 

So, I looked over the message and saw Warning unknown option "ao at line 2 . I looked in /home/heather/.mplayer/config and saw nothing out of the ordinary.

# Write your default config options here!
"ao=arts"

But just in case, I deleted the "ao=arts" , saved and tried again but still wouldn't open and still got the same message so I added it back.

I tried Googling it and got nothing. I tried searching on the board and it seemed one person had that problem but if it was solved the solution wasn't posted.

 

So, you can see I did my homework. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this.

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I did what you said and took the quotes out of the ao=arts and then I did mplayer -ao help and arts is listed so I tried:

[heather@applwibas02-l10-1025 heather]$ mplayer -ao arts /home/heather/videos/Veronica.Mars/veronica.mars.112.hdtv-lol.avi
MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Spitfire (Family: 6, Stepping: 1)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2



85 audio & 196 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Playing /home/heather/videos/Veronica.Mars/veronica.mars.112.hdtv-lol.avi.
File not found: '/home/heather/videos/Veronica.Mars/veronica.mars.112.hdtv-lol.avi'
Failed to open /home/heather/videos/Veronica.Mars/veronica.mars.112.hdtv-lol.avi


Exiting... (End of file)

 

Also I went in to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and where it said

 

# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).

# ao=oss

 

I changed it to

# Specify default audio driver (see -ao help for a list).

# ao=arts

 

It still will not open though :wall:

Edited by heather1113
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this happened to me once. turned out i hadn't installed MPlayer fonts. do you have those installed? go to Mandrake Control Center->software management->install & type mplayer in the search. look for a package called mplayer-fonts-<version #>. or, you could also do as root from a terminal urpmi mplayer-fonts if you're one of those cli hardcores. install the package, then try running MPlayer.

 

Chris

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