Hello:

I'm running Antix 8 test 1 (not public release) on my laptop and I've noticed something odd about mplayer.

I have a Music directory with some mp3 files. If I single-click on any of the files they start playing but mplayer does not show up on the desktop. I can see mplayer using htop and the only way to stop it is to kill it. Obviously I also don't have volume control or control. I should also mention I'm using fluxbox.

Is is supposed to be like this? Shouldnt I be able to see the mplay GUI when it's playing a file?

Thanks.

Pedro

I guess you are opening the files in pcmanfm.
You need to configure it so xmms is used for audio files (or whatever you want)

Right-click on the mp3 in pcmanfm
Open with
Open with another program
Type xmms in Command Line
Check Set selected...
Ok

Thanks Anti! That fixed it. I guess mplayer is a command line player, not associated with a GUI.

Pedro

If you want to use mplayer for avi for example, then type
gmplayer to get the gui

Thanks Anti. I did not know about the mplayer gui.

I opened it using a terminal and when I tried to quit it had a bad crash and I had to kill it since it was unresponsive.

I tried it a second time and noticed the following messages in the terminal window:

pedro@mepis1:~$ gmplayer
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 (Family: 15, Model: 104, Stepping: 1)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Exiting... (Quit)

I guess it's looking for something it cannot find??

Thanks.

Pedro

Do you have Gmplayer installed? Lirc is the package to use remote controls.

$ gmplayer
gmplayer: Symbol `rgb32to24' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 107, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.


and it opens as it should.

The message is normal.

It is in the menu as Video->mplayer (though it is gmplayer)