grau:
Most likely MPlayer terminates because of the error in the config file. You can try to press 'Report' button to see detailed information about the last video playback attempt. If you recall a post from Tweak (http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...postcount=222), these lines should be added to input.conf file, but not to config. Hope this helps.

I can't run MPlayer
 

Hi all,
every time I try to run MPlayer, I have that small box with "MPlayer loading..." for few seconds and then nothing happens. Uninstall/Install does not help.
Any ideas?

TIA
-ioan

Try to run 'gmplauncher' from XTerminal instead of using menu and report what happens, it can provide some useful error messages in console.

Also you may want to try rebooting the device, it sounds dumb but this method already helped in some cases :) I nothing helps, please provide some additional information such as your IT2006 version, some information about your mmc card (its size, filesystem type, general directories layout), as mplayer gui scans mmc card for video files, it may have some problems on your device at this step. Also it is interesting whether you are using swap or not. With more details it will be easier to figure out what happens and make MPlayer work on your device.

~ $ gmplauncher
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:5853: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "../images/qgn_plat_volume_bar_horizontal_regular_mute_button _disa bled_pressed.png"
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:5855: "Background" image options spe cified without filename
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:5867: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "../images/qgn_plat_volume_bar_horizontal_regular_mute_button _disa bled_pressed.png"
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:5869: "Background" image options spe cified without filename
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:6048: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "../images/qgn_plat_volume_bar_vertical_regular_mute_button_d isabl ed_pressed.png"
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:6050: "Background" image options spe cified without filename
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:6062: Unable to locate image file in pixmap_path: "../images/qgn_plat_volume_bar_vertical_regular_mute_button_d isabl ed_pressed.png"
/usr/share/themes/theme4-14pt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:6064: "Background" image options spe cified without filename

so I suppose is because I use the 14pt theme...

Of course I rebooted, still nothing. I have a 2GB mmc, formated in fat32, I have a 24MB swap file... I don't have any video files on my mmc yet, I just wanted to run it to see the application and then maybe convert some videos.

Now one more question, do the MPlayer works with the xm online satellite radio broadcast? I think they broadcast in wma format, and the mime is video/x-ms-asf.

Thanks
-ioan

actually I think is the memory card (and/or swap file). If I take out the memory card, the MPlayer starts right away, if the card is in... nothing happens if I try to run the application.
I have the memory card almost full with maps for maemo-mapper, over 200k of map tiles... maybe the MPlayer is searching for videos on the mmc and just take time (lots of time) until starts? If this is the case, can you disable the option to search for video files?

Thanks
-ioan

hum... thanks for the answer, but I didn't find any other file. Besides, this oone had "Place here the codes you want to apply" (or something close) so I figured out that was it.

I'll keep looking, but thanks already fot your answer.

I don't recall input.conf being created by default, so you will probably need to make it yourself. For more options check the full documention on the mplayer site.

Yes, most likely. Scanning all these files can take quite a lot of time, I have only about several hundreds of files on MMC card, so GUI starts with almost no delay. Disabling automatic scanning for files can reduce usability as you will have to perform many extra operations just to open video files to start watching them. The goal of this GUI was simplicity, but looks like it fails when there are too many files. Maybe we can either restrict scanning for video files in some subdirectory on MMC card such as 'Videos'? One more option is to have some limit on MMC card scanning (limit either time or the number of files before giving up). Anyway comments about how to resolve such issue are welcome.

Don't know, it is better ot try it :) You can run mplayer from XTerminal by providing url in its command line.

By the way, I'm going to upgrade maemo mplayer package to upstream version 1.0rc1 on this weekend, it should have better flv and wmv support and also support some new other formats.

It would be good to provide a general directory-to-scan config option. As well as solving this start up time problem, it would also allow people (including me) to specify a directory on a different MMC partition.

- Neil

you got my vote, scanning just in one dir (and all subdirs) on the mmc is the best idea.

Thanks,
-ioan