Starting MPlayer GUI

[Littlenatey]

Hi, I installed MPlayer from the RPMs but I can't seem to find a way to start it up in GUI mode. Can anyone help me?

[Hayl]

you have to download a theme before it will work. it doesn't come with one.

also - in ~/.mplayer/config add the following line:

gui=yes

you can download themes for mplayer from their homepage. http://www.mplayerhq.hu

btw - all of this info i just provided is available on their home page in the documentation under "What about the GUI?"

[OliverW]

and after you start it with 'gmplayer' I believe :)

[Littlenatey]

Where do I extract one of the skins to? I had already installed the default skin RPM and added the gui=yes, and changed one mplayer file to gplayer based on instructions I read in some documentation. I type gplayer and/or mplayer in a terminal and I still get the command line mplayer.

[JP83]

Check this:
http://spiritisdigital.com/linux/howtos/MPlayerfromsources.htm

[ashoksagar]

From the command line start the gui by typing gmplayer

[Littlenatey]

well I ran gmplayer and it seemed to work .. except for this error which didnt let it run

gmplayer: relocation error: gmplayer: undefined symbol: XineramaIsActive

As far as I know Xine isnt installed at all.

[JP83]

Better take tar package is realy good idea because it's more optimized for your hardware and that shows.

[rob3rtz]

yap..i got the same problem as u..

follow what people said ..and i finnaly able to run it
this what i do

d/l the tar file..then do
'./configure --enable-gui' .. i got this from their documents

'make'
'make install'

and wala..it said i need font and skin..
ok now go back and d/l what u need(choose skin)
i manually put in the directory 'mpayer lookin for'

if u don't know.. run mplayer..and it will tell u that mplayer couldn't find skin at '/root/.mplayer/Skin' or something like that..

just copy that to the directory..and it works

now i got other prob..i able to run it in GUI...but when trying to do fullscreen..it still on the same size..only surround by black and black screen

so how do i make fullsize movie??
anybody know??

[JP83]

Check that my post and that link for config you should select different video output device dga (if work could be good) or xv (x11 probably slow if zoomed so mybe not good)
./mplayer/config file
# Write your default config options here!
gui=yes #use gui?
skin=neutron #if yes, what is your fav skin?
vo=xv #what video output driver?
double=yes #use double buffering? recommended

[sporkit]

Originally posted by OliverW
and after you start it with 'gmplayer' I believe :)

that seemed to do the trick for me too. now all i need to know is how i add this to my little lanucher in redhat. :D

[janne_oksanen]

You need to extract the default skin files to:

/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default

Then you can put additional skins to:

/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/

I had problems with skins too.

Janne