Try logging in with user of mythtv and password of mythtv. Once in you can type su (enter) and then type in the root password. When you are done working as root you type exit (enter) and it will put you back to mythtv user.
Try running mplayer as the mythtv user. I am not sure how putty handles SSH handles graphics, so I would run mplayer from the machine itself (not using putty/ssh). Try this while sitting in front of the box. (Not using ssh)
exit out of mythfrontend
Alt-F1 and select the terminal to open a terminal box.
type mplayer -- (enter)
This will cause mplayer to start and then show just enough info and then die. it should show you the version# and a few other lines of stuff. You can check to make sure it has the right version that you installed.d
Now change to the video directory and make sure you can run a video
cd /myth/video
mplayer somefile.avi
See if that works. If it dont' it should show you why in the terminal.

It does look for a few different config files in a couple of different places, if it doesn't find them it will tell you as it searches for those config files in the directories it thinks it may be in... so a few file or directory not found may be ok.

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Just an update...after much tinkering, I finally got things working again. For some reason, removing a couple arguments somehow got things working again, even though they were there the last time when everything worked... Who knows. Anyway, I took the command I had set up for playing videos...

and changed it to...


Not sure how or why that solved it, but it did.

I'd like to recompile mplayer to play additional file types, can I do it without getting a new version, i.e. just recompile the one that's already installed? I've downloaded and un'tared the codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs, can I just go into the mplayer directory and run:

./configure
make
make install

I wrote a guide at this url a while ago.

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Bumping this thread to find out if I can do this without installing a new version of mplayer.