On Thursday 05 December 2002 9:10 pm, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
Can you post the exact output of "mplayer -ao alsa9" here? I don't see how there could be no GUI support.
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 ... 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. 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.
I was pretty sure that I saw BRIGHTNESS/CONTROLS controls under gmplayer PREFERENCES, but I was wrong. I just checked. :(
They're the fourth button along on the GUI, then Video tab. But Clayton's keyboard shortcuts are great too. 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. Thanks again Kevin