ubuntu and Mplayer

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Overload

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Hi there,

Basically the problem is when I try and load Mplayer from the menu it quickly displays a window titled 'Error' and then disappears again.

In the terminal i type ' gmplayer' it displays the following:
Code: 
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
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.
[skin] file ( /usr/share/mplayer/Skin/default/skin ) not found.
Skin not found (default).

After many hours of faffing around I turn to you lot.

I am not sure how to resolve this problem as i am pretty usless at Linux (we all have to start somewhere). It would be most appreciated if someone could help me to get the damn thing working.

I have recently upgraded to 6.06. In my previous version of ubuntu, Mplayer worked.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

P.s. one thing to note is that the mplayer plugin for mozilla works.
 
Hi

you may find some of the information in this link usefull:-

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/#multimedia

not currently got ubuntu on any machines so carn't try mplayer install.

but basically run the belwo script:-

wget -c -O /tmp/sources.list http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/sources.list
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup
sudo cp /tmp/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update

then do

sudo apt-get install mplayer
sudo sed -i.backup -e's@vo=x11,@vo=xv,@g' /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf


Cheers
Deano
 
deano said:
sudo apt-get install mplayer
Click to expand...

When i typed this it told me that i had the latest version and that it had installed anything.


After executing all the commands there was no difference - still brings up error.

Thanks for helping though.

Dave.
 
did you do this one:-

sudo sed -i.backup -e's@vo=x11,@vo=xv,@g' /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

cheers
deano
 
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