Installing mplayer on ubuntu linux

apr 23, 2016

http://www.linuxtechi.com/install-mplayer-ubuntu/

sudo apt-get install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins

after installing, the app would error out due to some issue with PNG files in the default skins directory or some such nonsense.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mplayer/+bug/1218510

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

that app launches.