Re: [Freevo-users] Problem with MPlayer failing to play media

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:15:41 -0800

I'm confused to why everyone is saying you need gmplayer? gmplayer is a gtk front end to mplayer that is not needed by freevo. mplayer is all that is needed. If it works from command line, then it should work with freevo.

Check that it is being correctly detected by running freevo setup. This should then write a file to /etc/freevo/freevo.conf with the path of mplayer in it among other applications freevo uses.

I found when mplayer did not work for me it was because I had not set up my sound correctly. What sound system aer you using? oss or alsa? Your probably using alsa and the 1x series. Make sure that

MPLAYER_AO_DEV

in your /etc/freevo/local_conf.py section is correct. You can see what options are available to your own mplayer installation by running "mplayer -ao help" on the command line. Sometimes for alsa it wants alsa or alsa1x, you'll have to find out for yourself.

Hope this helps somewhat,

Nick



Neil wrote:

The problem I’m having is that MPlayer is working from the command line but not from Freevo. I think that this is because I’m missing gmplater. I’m just wondering which apt-get option will give me gmplayer.

I must appologise I’m not too familure with MPlayer. My other system which is based on mandrake worked out of the box! I guess I was lucky.

Many thanks

Neil

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Yes. If you need only mplayer, you should apt-get mplayer-nogui...

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    Will apt-get install gmplayer also? Is there a separate package
    for this?

    Many thanks

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    I don't know morphix at all, but if it's debian based (i.e. it
    uses apt-get) you should first check your achitecture (uname -m)
    and then apt-get the correct package (e.g. apt-get mplayer-586).
    mplayer -v should tell you what version you have installed. If you
    have the newest, apt-get will tell you when you try to install...

    Lorenzo

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        *Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2005 4:17 PM

        *Subject:* RE: [Freevo-users] Problem with MPlayer failing to
        play media

        Ah,

        I’m not sure! I think that my morphix distro might have had it
        installed! Is there a way I can change which version is
        installed?

        I don’t have the development environment on the machine hence
        the fact I can not compile these programs

        Regards,

        Neil

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        play media

        Hi Neil

        Actually mplayer is a virtual package provided by :

        mplayer-nogui 1:1.0-pre6-0.1
        mplayer-k6 1:1.0-pre6-0.2
        mplayer-586 1:1.0-pre6-0.2
        mplayer-386 1:1.0-pre6-0.2

        What did you installed ?

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            *Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2005 10:36 AM

            *Subject:* [Freevo-users] Problem with MPlayer failing to
            play media

            Hi,

            I’m sorry that I don’t have specifics with this currently
            however,

            I have installed Freevo on Morphix (debian) I used the
            apt-get to install freevo. The problem is that mplayer
            will not play! It also does not give an error message.
            This is the same for both MP3 and AVI.

            Mplayer works fine from the command line. I have also
            looked at what is passed to it from freevo. This looks ok too.

            Freevo is the latest version and MPlayer is 1.0 pre 6.

            I know this is not much information! What information
            would be useful to help me resolve this?

            I have been using freevo for a year now. This is the first
            time I have tried to run it from Debian!

            Many thanks

            Neil


            
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