[Wylug-help] Mplayer

[Craig Hopkins]

Also, a good thing to think about when googling is where you're using 
mplayer.

Is it in stand-alone mplayer?
Is it in gmplayer, or the mplayer plugin within your browser?

This'll affect the issues people have seen and how they've debugged it. 
 From the sounds of it, it's streamed within a web browser but which 
browser? Do you see it in all browsers you try it in? :)

Craig


Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
> And without the intention of starting a flame war.
>
> 1. What is your distribution? -> Go and find the faq for this. Web and 
> google is good but faqs "tend" to be faster to people without a clue 
> on new OS.
> 2. I guess you have an internet connection so it will definitely be 
> easier if you install the software package from your distros repos. If 
> this sentence sounds Greek to you, see 1.
> 3. mplayer is good and plays pretty much everything  but ehm i found 
> out so far that vlc media player installs flawlessly and also plays 
> pretty much everything.
> 4. compiling from source usually means:
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>
> if no errors then you have installed the program on its default 
> locations.... if errors, ehm, easier to go with option 2 at this 
> stage. once you get to understand linux a bit more then resolving 
> dependencies will make sense. personally i still find this process a 
> pain in the *** no matter what the level of the user is.  :)
>
> Starting to learn linux? Hmmm, an introductory book? Google for 
> introduction to linux? I would suggest understanding the filesystem a 
> bit first to get unhooked from the C:, D:, AA:, etc "notation". If you 
> are coming from windows well you will find that some things are 
> different in linux from xp.... however, if you had the chance to work 
> with vista then you will see that things are a bit more similar, 
> except that ehm linux was there first... and if you think you could 
> make the transition to vista then i guess you can make to linux too. 
> Hope these helps.
>
> Cheers.
>
> PS: 1 and 2 are the most important to start using your pc "productively".
>
> Andy Macdonald wrote:
>> Glenn,
>>
>> Yep it is quite a sub-set of English. Asking the lug for help is a 
>> good first step, although purists would say you should try to fix it 
>> yourself first.
>>
>> The documentation is basically English, it means that you can 
>> identify the bits you don't understand and then look them up on 
>> wikipedia or google. This can involve quite a lot of recursion (look 
>> it up!).
>>
>> Once you have understood what they're saying, then you have to find 
>> the 'howto' that tells you how to actually do the the thing such as 
>> 'compiling from source', for not only is it assumed that you know 
>> what it means, but that you are intimately familiar with how to do 
>> it. Usually it won't work first time you try, due to differences in 
>> your set up, which you will have to troubleshoot and resolve.
>>
>> Then you might be able to fix the problem, unless it is a bug in the 
>> software.
>> To that end, FIRST try googling to see if other people are having the 
>> same problem. There might even be a quick fix which doesn't tax the 
>> brain cells too much.
>>
>> Best of luck,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On Fri, 07 Mar, glennschultz at talktalk.net wrote:
>>  
>>> Howdy!
>>> I've had yet another problem with mplayer - I managed to get it 
>>> working (eventually) but then downloaded a package of updates and 
>>> yet again it stopped the mplayer in it's tracks!? I've tried reading 
>>> the
>>> documentation on the mplayer website but not being an IT 
>>> professional it means absolutely nothing to me.? The video starts 
>>> downloading then shows 'stopped' then continues and finally says 
>>> 'download complete'
>>> but when I hit the play button it just says 'stopped' again.? What 
>>> am I doing wrong???? Incidentally is there anywhere I can go to 
>>> start learning about Linux because I can't get it off my machine so I'm
>>> stuck with it but I have no idea what any of the guidance is talking 
>>> about......Compiling from source???Parsing???Resolving 
>>> dependencies????? I've worked out the the language used is nominally 
>>> English
>>> but that's as far as I've got!!!
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Glenn
>>>
>>>     
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