praveenmarkandu Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 hi all. i like linux(especially mandriva)...and i think it will suit me in due time and i could defiantely make the full switch to Linux and dump windows. but i have run into some problems which is the installation of software i've become quite efficient at compiling sources using the ./configure and make commands. i try to keep most of my software in /opt directory (dont ask me why), stuff like LAMPP ,firefox, thunderbird and azureus. but for some things i dont know really where they are installed to when i make them. i just downloaded mplayer to play my wmv files but when i try to launch it from the konsole, it goes it comes up as text in the console rather than launching a GUI like firefox. is there a certain way to install this or am i just missunderstanding the process? this is what i did: 1. untar mplayer 2.move the untared directory to /opt 3. from /opt/mplayer i use the ./configure command 4. then i use the make command 5. and then the make install command 6. lastly i try to run the program by typing ./mplayer ( it launches but not as a GUI) please help. TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 try gmplayer instead..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 IMHO it is almost always better to install from rpm (via urpmi) than install from source yourself. It's infinitely easier and all dependencies are sorted out for you. If you haven't used urpmi yet, you're missing a great tool. And yes, mplayer is a command line tool, if you want a GUI you can get a little front-end application, which just uses mplayer in the background. I guess gmplayer is one of those, but I've never used it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 From urpmi you can only get old versions of mplayer, which playback decently, but they are... urghhh, darn ugly (gtk 1.2) The current mplayer svn versions use gtk2 (yay!), but you shouldn't expect seeing them in Mandriva anytime soon. Factly, they fail to compile cleanly at most distros ATM- more so under Mandriva. This is the price to be paid for bleeding edge, nothing particurarly useful to be done for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 There is an rpm here: http://www.mde.djura.org/2006.0/RPMS/mplay...0.svn3.i586.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 try gmplayer instead..... Or kplayer if you are using KDE. This is a front-end for mplayer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 (edited) Or kaffeine, yummie kaffeine, I love caffeine Edited July 31, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 maybe OT, but FYI i've become quite efficient at compiling sources using the ./configure and make commands. i try to keep most of my software in /opt directory (dont ask me why), stuff like LAMPP ,firefox, thunderbird and azureus. The stuff that you put here are not actually the software you've compiled, these are still sources... if you run the ./configure with out prefixes, the software you've tried to install will go to /usr/local.. or to the default directory the package Makefile has been set.. try to ./configure --help for more options to choose on installing softwre from sources... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praveenmarkandu Posted August 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 thanks for all your help guys. i have installed mplayer succesfully and added the GUI to it so its now gmplayer. but it gives me this [root@localhost ~]# gmplayerMPlayer 1.0pre8-4.0.1 © 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel® Pentium® M processor 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 [skin] file ( /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not readable. Skin not found (default). i've put a skin in that directory but it cant seem to read it. much help appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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