mplayer / gmplayer

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2005 15:46:32 -0700
> Net Llama! <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the exact command you're issuing to run it?  Do you have a movie
> > that you're trying to play or are you just running a binary?
> >
> > LIRC is for infrared remote control support.  Do you have an infrared
> > remote control setup on your computer?  If not, then you don't need
> > LIRC, but more importantly, you should have built mplayer without lirc
> > support.
> >
> > Also you didn't setup the font correctly.  As the message states, you
> > need to provide a TTF font in ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
> >
> > Also, you need to run this as root:
>  echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
>
>
> AS a user the cmd issued is :
> rick at RSivernell:~>  mplayer OnceaMarineAlwaysaMarine.wmv & in a terminal.
>                 and
> rick at RSivernell:~> g mplayer OnceaMarineAlwaysaMarine.wmv & in a terminal.

You can't background mplayer.  Try again.

>
>
> The only thing I do not have is the subfont.ttf, It is not on my system and currently
> googling for it now. Have I not added something or created this improperly?

Just copy *ANY* TTF to subfont.ttf and you're done.

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