Hi. Anyone knows how to install mplayer or an equivalent player on suse
11.0. I tried to install it from source without success, the “make
install” breaks complaining that there is no default skin installed. Is
there maybe an alternative player available, that opens most of media
files. Thanks for help.
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arcull;1908375 Wrote:
> Hi. Anyone knows how to install mplayer or an equivalent player on suse
> 11.0. I tried to install it from source without success, the “make
> install” breaks complaining that there is no default skin installed. Is
> there maybe an alternative player available, that opens most of media
> files. Thanks for help.
When it comes to compiling MPlayer from source, user microchip is one
of our resident experts.
But it is easy to install MPlayer (together with its excellent front
end smplayer) from pre-compiled rpms.
I assume your PC has internet access? If so, then the very first
thing you should do is setup your software package management. Do so by
adding 4 and only 4 repositories to your Software package manager. A
“repository” is in essence the address of a file server where there are
many applications on that file server. Specifically I recommend you add
OSS, Non-OSS, Update and Packman. Just those 4 repositories (repos).
No others. None. You can add more than those 4 only when you understand
the risks and problems that can arise from other repositories, and also
only when you understand how to fix such problems.
There is a guide here on how to add those 4 repositories;
‘Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community’
(http://opensuse-community.org/Repositories/11.0) Again add ONLY OSS,
Non-OSS, Update and Packman. Just those 4 for now.
Once you have those 4 added, then go to YaST > Software > Software
Manager, and change “filter” to search and search for “smplayer”. Add
smplayer. That will also pickup MPlayer as a dependency, and you are
all set.
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arcull;1908375 Wrote:
> Hi. Anyone knows how to install mplayer or an equivalent player on suse
> 11.0. I tried to install it from source without success, the “make
> install” breaks complaining that there is no default skin installed. Is
> there maybe an alternative player available, that opens most of media
> files. Thanks for help.
what do you mean by “make install breaks complaining there is no
default skin”??? MPlayer by default does not come with a skin so you
will have to download one and place it in /home/username/.mplayer/Skins
and name it “default” or if this doesn’t work, you should place it in
/usr/local/share/mplayer/skin and name it “default”
make install will NOT break because there’s no skin, it will only warn
you
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AFAIK Kaffeine already supports MPlayer.
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Kaffeine supports Mplayer? Could you elaborate on that?
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Kaffeine by default uses the xine-lib, though it also supports
Gstreamer. It can, however, be extended to support mplayer using the
KPart system
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JosipBroz;1908556 Wrote:
> Kaffeine supports Mplayer? Could you elaborate on that?
I understand that Kaffeine is able to use the MPlayer backend.
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Thank you all for contributions. I thought that in Mplayer source there
is a default skin 
so I gues this is the source of my problem. But
rather than compiling from source I’ll try to install it via yast, which
has no repository containing mplayer yet, but I’ll add them and we’ll
see how it works out 
Thanks again.
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arcull;1908684 Wrote:
> Thank you all for contributions. I thought that in Mplayer source there
> is a default skin so I gues this is the source of my problem. But
> rather than compiling from source I’ll try to install it via yast, which
> has no repository containing mplayer yet, but I’ll add them and we’ll
> see how it works out Thanks again.
I personally prefer installation from sources. Use ./configure
–enable-gui. Also use instructions in #3 to place default skin folder.
also don’t forget to place a font with name subfont.ttf. if make install
fails, use make -ki install (Very bad use, but sometimes it works).
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