Problem with M Player from MyDSL
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Problem with M Player from MyDSL
started by: spmcg
Posted by spmcg on Sep. 30 2006,08:39
I have downloaded MPlayer using the MyDSL tool - I am using DSL 3.0. The download tool ran OK - went to ibiblio, download something, seemed to install it ok and there's now a nice MPLayer icon on the desktop. But when I click on it nothing happens. The HD seems to spin for a second or two but nothing else.
Have I missed something? I thought this was all I needed to do???
Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 30 2006,14:01
Which mplayer did you install?What do you see when you enter the gmplayer command in a terminal?
Posted by spmcg on Oct. 01 2006,08:26
I installed the one for DSL by ke4nt; not the one for XFree86 and not the plugin for Mozilla. From the MyDSL selection menu.When I enter 'gmplayer" from terminal (as root?) it says "Illegal instruction".
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 01 2006,11:24
Maybe this will help:< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=11588 >
Posted by spmcg on Oct. 01 2006,15:08
I don't seem to have a "MyDSL" button on my version of emelfm (0.9.2). I am using JWM and what I do have is two instances of "Mplayer" in the "MyDSL" menu which is part of the maain DSL menu. The Mplayer icon points to gmplayer in /usr/bin, but that file is only 7 bytes in size and seems to say only "ELF" then three diamonds. The mplayer.dsl file is sitting in my /tmp directory. Any thoughts?
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 01 2006,15:23
The myDSL button in emelfm no longer exists. Use the myDSL interface to load the extension. The point of that link was to show that there apparently was an issue with loading mplayer too early...or something like that. In any case, I have no idea if that is the same problem you're having, but it resulted in the same error message.It's possible that your file is corrupted. Did you check the md5sum?
gmplayer is a symlink to mplayer, which is why it's so tiny. mplayer was built to check whether or not it's started as "mplayer" or "gmplayer" to decide if it needs to load the graphical interface.
Posted by spmcg on Oct. 02 2006,10:16
How do I check the md5sum? I have a file called mplayer.dsl.md5.txt but what do I check it against or with? Tks
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 02 2006,12:54
md5sum is the program.You can use the -c option to check against that list.
Posted by spmcg on Oct. 02 2006,15:08
The md5sum is correct.
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 02 2006,19:59
well, a google search came up with a little bit of info, although it seems "illegal instruction" is about as easy to debug as "segmentation fault".It could be faulty hardware, bad ram, etc.
It could be that your processor is not pentium. If that's the case you're out of luck with this particular extension, as it was apparently compiled specifically for pentium. Have you tried the uci or tar.gz version of mplayer? The tar.gz requires xfree, but i'm not sure about the uci...it's friggin 31mb, so I would hope it has everything you need.
Posted by spmcg on Oct. 03 2006,03:17
The processer is Pentium, though only just! P133 in a Compaq Armada 1520. I was hoping to avoid xfree; I was using it with DSL 2.something but couldn't get MPlayer to work then, which is why I installed DSL3 to start fresh. xfree is a pita with the video card in this notebook.Where do I find the .uci? Space not a problem as I have a 3G HDD.
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 03 2006,05:16
it's in the "uci" section of the myDSL repository.
Posted by spmcg on Oct. 06 2006,01:46
OK, I found and downloaded the file. Managed to figure out how one mounts it. So, well, it works - that's to say, it loads. The problem now is that because it is the full version it comes up with an error saying it can't find the video output device (-vo). MPlayer help says to run 'mplayer -vo help', but doing this gives the 'illegal instruction' message - I assume because mplayer isn't actually on the system anywhere, just mounted.
Editing the config file manually leads me to the conclusion that since this is essentially the full version of MPLayer, it won't properly run unless xfree is installed. I don't want xree - this is exactly why I wanted to use the .dsl extension that doesn't need xfree. Looks like I have no choice...
EDIT: According to < http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS....c-cards >
i'm almost certainly never going to get this to work usably, if at all...
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 06 2006,18:37
Actually, mplayer just defaults to -vo xv which requires XFree86 due to the video accelerated by the XV extension. Afaik, all the mplayer versions in the repository carry it, though each package are a bit different, they all carry the xv plugin (some have the video plugin already changed). Change your video plugin to X11 (XImage/Shm) and that should work (use -vo x11 if using commandline).I just hope you aren't hoping to play DVD's...
Posted by jls legalize on Oct. 07 2006,11:15
if u use mplayer-1.0pre8cvs.uci copy /opt/mplayer-1.0pre8cvs/doc/ConfigFilesAreHere/configin
/home/dsl/.mplayer
as user root