Comments on: Install Mplayer in Ubuntu Linux

By: Jeff R

Jeff R — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:33:50 +0000

I installed the player so I can watch my favorite DVD’s. The player launches the DVD with no problem but I get no sound AND the image is garbled. It acts like my hardware is not fast enough to play the DVD. I am trying this on a brand new Dell Latitude 2100 and Ubuntu 9.04-the Jaunty Jackalope. What can I do to get this to work correctly? Sorry, I am new to this OS so I am still trying to learn.

Thanks

By: João

João — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:27:41 +0000

Normal install

Now extract tar

cd (folder crieted by the tar)

Now read the README or INSTALL to see other ways of installation if the installation is different follow what it says.
If it isn’t different follow my steps.

./configure
make
make install
cd ..

RPM install

In RPM you have to convert RPM to deb.

Now you have to install alien so you utilize the command “apt-get install alien”.

alien -d (name of the RPM.rpm)

For install deb

dpkg -i (name of the deb.deb)

Bundle install

chmod +x (name of the bundle.bundle)
name of the bundle.bundle

keygen (This is just a keygen for bundle i don’t know if it is like this every time)
chmod +x keygen
keygen
And now it will appear the key.

Finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: NarenG

NarenG — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:34:35 +0000

i installed the mplayer sucessfuly but i cant play any avi videos. mp3s woks fine but when there is a video file it gives an error.
please give me any suggestion

By: KillmySelf

KillmySelf — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:10:36 +0000

Forget all that, all this step is nonsense to me since most of these step needed me to connected to internet, but sorry to tell you, I didn’t have one. So, alternative way I done is by downloading sources packages one by one, but its very very hard to finish since I can’t leave anything behind. So, can you help me for this situation?
I want to install all kind of codecs and the best media player I can get. I’m using ubuntu 8.04 and intel core duo 2.0.

By: KingBoogie

KingBoogie — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:25:05 +0000

I am fairly new to Ubuntu. I was having problems with my players and just wanted to get rid of all the audio/video apps and just install one. I like the mplayer and when i went to reinstall I got this error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mplayer: Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.17) but 1.0.15-3ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libggi2 (>= 1:2.2.2) but 1:2.2.1-5ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.1) but 2.12.9-3ubuntu5 is to be installed
Depends: libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b-3) but 0.15.1b-2.1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libmp3lame0 (>= 3.98) but it is not installable
Depends: libopenal1 (>= 1:1.3.253) but it is not installable
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.21.6) but 1.20.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libspeex1 (>= 1.2~beta3-1) but 1.1.12-3ubuntu0.8.04.1 is to be installed
Depends: libx264-59 (>= 1:0.svn20080408) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

I have added the appropriate repos and I also ran sudo apt-get -f install and the problem continues. please any help would be appriciated

By: Roop

Roop — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:10:31 +0000

when i’m saving those 2 lines in /etc/apt/sources.list… its not accepting. its saying i’he no permissions.
but i logged in as admin.
what can i do?
plz help me boss…..

By: wireless-guide

wireless-guide — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:51:59 +0000

for slavic languages gksudo gedit /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

subcp=windows-1250
font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf

Nice tuto thx.

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:46:09 +0000

# robo Says:
November 5th, 2006 at 9:13 pm

Please add universe to the line in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse

libggi2 will be installed together with mplayer and everything is fine.

Thanks Robo. That did the trick. I’m able to play quicktime files now.

By: jon

jon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:58:28 +0000

nick dude,

type
chmod 777 /etc/apt/sources.list

this gives you the owner root and anyone else permission to mess with the file or you can log in as root and modify the file there.

By: nick

nick — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:25:42 +0000

I’m having the same problem as CajunKen has, not having access or permission to save on the sources.list file

HELP

By: Phoeninaicq

Phoeninaicq — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:22:50 +0000

When I click the link above, the page refreshes and nothing else happens. How do I install Real Play 10 for UBUNTU? or Mplayer.

By: CajunKen

CajunKen — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:05:05 +0000

Why can’t I get write access to the ’sources.list’ file? If I list the permissions, I get:
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1732 2007-04-09 21:00 sources.list

How do I get ownership of this file?

By: stefan

stefan — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:35:59 +0000

Some people here might have authorization problems. I’m not sure what causes this, but you might be able to play video’s using right click (on the file you want to open) and then choosing “Open with…” “Other…” and than the command “sudo mplayer” and enabling “run in terminal”. This works fine on my computer, but it’s not how it’s supposed to work off course.

By: Roark

Roark — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:48:49 +0000

Oh, you need to do this for each user that will access gmplayer!

BTW — thanks for the article it was great to have gmplayer back again.

I am knew to Ubuntu but not to linux — so the compile thing is getting my goat —- Still willing to accept tips/hits/blasting’s….Whatever….But I am glad this article was hear!

By: Roark

Roark — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:45:11 +0000

Blessed are the French because they know pictures are more important than words!!!

Take a look at http://www.billyboylindien.com/blog/tutos/erreur-mplayer/

And keep in mind you can get to gmplayer preferences by right clicking on the control panel. The picture should tell you a lot but essentially choose the video tab and change you video preference to
xv X11/xv

By: Roark

Roark — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:21:06 +0000

I also am getting:

When I open Mplayer i get an error : error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

After installing. If someone figures this out before I do please post. If not, I will try to come back and post answer. PS:I could not compile at all on my Ubuntu – either I do not have the right headers or I get a message that GCC cannot create executable. Any hints on that would be great also!

By: Hanbing

Hanbing — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:55:16 +0000

It is very helpful. Thanks

By: Admin

Admin — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:41:44 +0000

@dave Try to install Mplayer codecs from here after that it should work.

By: Dave Telling

Dave Telling — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:46:51 +0000

I installed mplayer in Ubuntu Dapper – the install seemed to go fine, but whenever I try to play a DVD, I see that teh HD and the DVD drive show a lot of activity, but nothing comes up in the video window. When I bring up the system monitor, it says that the process gmplayer is “uniterruptible” I finally have to click on the close process button to shut it down, otherwise my system will just continue to show thwe disk and DVD activity lights forever. DVD’s play in MoviePlayer, so I know that the drive gets the data in. However, I am a pretty new noobie, and I’m not sure what to look for to figure this out. Mp3 files seem to play without a problem.

By: cesar

cesar — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:26:05 +0000

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