View movies as user?

[drews_blunted]

Hey, i have a amd 3400+ with an up to date fedora core 2 x86_64 install. I have only had it installed for about a day, and i have installed totem, xine and mplayer. I have tryed opening up a movie in xine, and it will not work as user. When i switch over to root and open xine, it plays the movie perfectly? i have tested it and it does the same for mplayer. Im not sure why this has happened i have not done anything odd to my system so i do not understand why i am having a problem like this?

in xine as user i get this while opening whatever.avi
There is no input plugin available to handle' Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/steam source doesn't exist.

Im not sure if that error means much, except that **** is broke.
Does my user not have access to a special video group or something? why cant i play back video as user?
Anyone have an idea? :)

[macemoneta]

Did you install them as RPMs? If not, then the permissions on some files are probably wrong. Also, remember to download and install the codecs from the mplayer website and place them in /usr/lib/win32.

[elasticwings]

Not sure if this will fix your problem, but I was having trouble with mplayer not working with my userid, but everything worked as root. What I ended up doing was copying my gui.conf file from /root/.mplayer over the one in my user's .mplayer directory and it fixed my problem.

[mndar]

He is right. Many of the problems are caused due to bad configuration files. What I do is , just move or delete the configuration file directory, usually .<package-name> in the users home and then start the application. It creates the new configuration files itself. Ofcourse you will lose the configuration changes you had made earlier when it was working. But thats better than having a non-working application, isn't it?