gnome-mplayer should support mplayer2 as i can see in the ebuild: || ( >=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20100101[ass] media-video/mplayer2[ass] ) but it doesn't work. $ gnome-mplayer music.mp3 Error when running: Failed to execute child process "mplayer" (No such file or directory) Error when running: Failed to execute child process "mplayer" (No such file or directory) Error when running: Failed to execute child process "mplayer" (No such file or directory) in media state change with state = 0 $ Reproducible: Always media-video/mplayer2-2.0 was built with the following: USE="X a52 ass cdio dts dv dvd dvdnav enca faad gif iconv ipv6 jpeg live mad mmx mng mp3 (multilib) network opengl osdmenu png pulseaudio quicktime rar rtc sdl shm speex sse sse2 theora truetype unicode vorbis xscreensaver xv xvid -3dnow -3dnowext -aalib -alsa (-altivec) (-aqua) -bidi -bindist -bl -bluray -bs2b -cddb -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dga -directfb (-doc) -dvb (-dxr3) -esd -fbcon -ftp -ggi -jack -joystick -ladspa -libcaca -lirc -md5sum -mmxext -nas -nut -oss -pnm -pvr -radio (-real) -samba -ssse3 -tga -v4l -v4l2 -vdpau (-win32codecs) -xanim -xinerama -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" media-video/gnome-mplayer-1.0.4 was built with the following: USE="dbus gnome libnotify (multilib) pulseaudio -alsa -ipod -musicbrainz"
You need to configure the command from the GUI to use mplayer2, it's not a out of box experience. Feel free to submit patch to upstream if you think it should be.
*** Bug 422655 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just as a note: I was pointed out at upstream bugtracker that installing mplayer2 as 'mplayer2' is actually a Gentoo-specific behavior.
