On 31/12/11 01:24, Steve Kleene wrote: > I just let my Wheezy system upgrade mplayer, and now I can't get a skin for > the player. (The skin is a separate window that has, among other things, a > slider that lets you jump to a time of your choice while playing.) In the > past, mplayer came with a link called gmplayer. Calling gmplayer brought up > a skin. The latest manual still shows this, as well as a -skin option that > also fails. dpkg.log shows the upgrade as follows: > > upgrade mplayer 3:1.0~rc4+svn20111024-0.0 3:1.0~rc4+svn20111213-0.0 > > That upgrade also deleted mplayer-skin-blue (the default skin I had been > using). Putting that back didn't help. I then wanted to reinstate the older > mplayer package but couldn't find an i386 version (except as source) in my > apt archive, at debian, or at debian-multimedia. So I'm out of ideas. > > Does anyone know why the skin option vanished? Is it likely to return to the > distribution? I know there are other players, but I'd prefer to stick with > the mplayer/mencoder system. > > Thanks. > >
Where did gmplayer go? No where - it never existed (which would make finding it difficult). I assume you're referring to gnome-mplayer which is the GTK interface for mplayer. It's still there in all Debian releases. # apt-get -s install gnome-mplayer TIP: use the excellent debian-multimedia(DM) repository for supplemental packages and you'll have less hassles. If the main repos's don't have the package - pull it from DM, otherwise use the main repos. Pinning for DM, modify to suit Wheezy:- Package: * Pin: release v=6.0,o=Unofficial Multimedia Packages,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Unofficial Multimedia Packages Pin-Priority: 200 Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4efe218e.2090...@gmail.com
