MPlayer bug fix 1218510

Question

Fails to open due to: PNG read error in /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default/main

People have been able to fix the problem with Paul Andreassen's workaround but I can't do one step.

Here is the work around-

As #8 Gianni Delchi wrote:

cd /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default; for FILE in *.png ; do sudo convert $FILE -define png:format=png24 $FILE ; done

I also recommend you change to the blue skins with:

cd /usr/share/mplayer/skins ; sudo rm default ; sudo ln -s Blue default

These also need the first command run on them.

But I am not able to

do sudo convert $FILE -define png:format=png24 $FILE ; done

Do I have to write in terminal ?

Solution 1

Gianni's solution, as described above, worked for me. Any '.png' file in the 'default' directory needs 'convert' run on it.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick
cd /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default
for FILE in *.png; do sudo convert $FILE -define png:format=png24 $FILE; done

Solution 2

I went to the Software Manager in Linux Mint, installed gnome-mplayer, and then launched that instead; and, it didn't give me an error.

So, that's what fixed it for me. Also installed and launched smplayer without a problem; so, that may be an alternative solution.

Comments

[Himagra Chawla]

Anyone with the solution?

[Fabby]

We're sorry, but this site is all about Ubuntu and its official derivatives as posted on wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases so Mint is off-topic here as well. However, on Unix & Linux, a sister site to Ask Ubuntu, they're very good at all varieties of Linux and Unix, so you might be better off there. ;-)

[Volker Siegel]

I saw a similar solution elsewhere, but in multiple lines: The problem was a newline before the *.png