On Friday 06 December 2002 05:28, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
I owe you a thousand apologies, Karol. When I read the output closely, it referred to pre9, and the new RPM I'd installed from you was pre10. Sure enough, the previous compile I'd done had put a gmplayer in /usr/local/bin, and this was the one that was launching. Your rpm gmplayer was in /usr/bin, and once I specifically added this to the launch string your gmplayer ran beautifully. So I've learnt a bit more ...
Apology graciously accepted. At least you figured out what was wrong.
The only issue is that it gives a messages at start-up: New_face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf). subtitle font: load_sub_face failed. It starts up anyway, though. I do in fact have the fonts directory from the source, and I tried fiddling about with that, but it doesn't make any difference. Not a show-stopper in any case.
Yeah, I was/am fully aware of that. I don't exactly know what that font is used for (possibly subtitles?), but the solution is fairly easy: just create a symlink to the font you want. Me: # l ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf lrwxrwxrwx 1 noodlez users 43 2002-10-22 17:53 .mplayer/subfont.ttf -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf # I was aware of this when I created the RPMs, but I decided against doing anything automatically.
One thing I have noticed is that running a full launch line in a console seems to run the dvd with less jerkiness than just launching gmplayer and then running DVD -> Open from the GUI menu. But that may just be my imagination.
Well, with the same exact settings, I'd so definitely not. Make sure gmplayer is using the same drivers as mplayer. Check out your ~/.mplayer/gui.conf .
Thanks very much for your help, Karol, and for preparing the rpms in the first place. I now have two DVD players running - an embarras de richesse, indeed! I think at the minute I have a slight preference for Xine, but I haven't tried them on any files other than a DVD.
Then you might be interested to know that Packman
(packman.links2linux.de) has xine RPMs compiled for i686. Also
available via their APT repository.
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Karol Pietrzak