mplayer

i have put a screenshot here

http://www.ukosplc.com/aos_web_site/site_main/chris/error.jpg

this only happens in Xwindows (kde 3.4)

I recommend to use a gui frontend, that is designed to play your Mplayer files within a graphical desktop
- here KDE - so in your case you better use the kplayer which is based on mplayer, but
works as an agent or frontend for your mplayer which is a need on backend side, but may
cause problems on the graphical frontend in the way you experienced.
For further read and help here some reference:

http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/manual/howto-installation.html

http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/

http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/manual/howto-slaves.html

http://kmplayer.kde.org/

ok but i really want to get mplayer working just because it should!

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>> ok but i really want to get mplayer working just because it should!

Kplayer is set up on 'mplayer', like the head is set up on it's body,
so what is the problem ?  You'd have mplayer and the frontend which makes it working happily
under the environment, YOU did choose.
You cannot simply force something to work in an environment, where it obvioiusly is
not happy to do it's job. You may try to change your environment or desktop,
but even under Gnome it is advised to use mplayer with gmplayer as a graphical
frontend. Sure, mplayer may be designed to display video files under Xwindows,
but KDE is built on XWindows, it is a graphical desktop in the XWindows environment,
it is not XWindows itself. It would be interesting to try and see, how it is performing without any KDE
running at all, so logout to run level 3, where you have a terminal, but no XWindows running and call
mplayer with the command, so that MPlayer would only open the graphical XWindow things it needs, without
disturbing with the KDE environment. If that's possible and it works then simply continue with no
KDE running, starting mplayer from runlevel 3 (where you only have a black screen with a user login
and a shell prompt thereafter).
If you though want the comfort of having your KDE running while trying to run your mplayer, then you should
give the system what the system needs, which is the graphical adaption (kplayer . . ) suitable
to work under KDE. This is how I see it. You'd have to understand that it is simply difficult
and causing effects as you can see on your screen, if you try to do two things at same time (mplayer and KDE)
, that have different preferences. The way to combine all into one is installation of kplayer, because it is built
to cooperate with KDE. Cheers.

 

ok how do i set codecs for kmplayer

??