Re: [SLUG] Mplayer codecs, 'Face' error.

[Richard Neal <phlizard@iprimus.com.au>]

Hai

Yeah I get that all the time on new installs with mplayer heres what I
do.

first run mplayer as root, if it doesn't work just make the directories
and files it cant find or open in the /root home directory with "mkdir"
and "touch" for files (last time I did this mplayer made all the files
and directories).

now copy the .mplayer file from /root  to /home/adam  
ie  as root
cd

cp -r .mplayer /home/adam

then 

cd /home/adam

chown -R adam .mplayer

and bingo it all works when you run it as a user.




On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 21:44, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Hi, 
> (1) Writing 'Mplayer' as user I get
> "Can't open '/home/adam/.mplayer/codecs.conf' No such file or directory"
> I've downloaded the Mplayer codecs file from the home page but it is 
> currently
> in /home/adam ... that's not the same as setting up a conf file.
> (2) Mplayer now handles all my MP3's (tough, I'd enjoyed installing 
> those sexy
> XMMS skins) but the video component crashes with the message:
> Error: "New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong. Please supply the 
> text font file
> ("/.mplayer/subfont.ttf)".
> 
> Any leads ?
> 
> Adam Bogacki,
> afb@paradise.net.nz
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Richard Neal <phlizard@iprimus.com.au>