mplayer does not recognize input.conf

Question

I am trying to control mplayer 1.3.0 (Debian) with the mouse. After installing, the input.conf file at ~/.mplayer was missing, so I created one. However, mplayer still does not react to the keybindings in this file.

I copied the keybindings to /etc/mplayer/input.conf and it worked, although not the mouse input. So I tried to reinstall mplayer by deleting the folders ~/.mplayer and /etc/mplayer and running sudo apt-get remove mplayer

Now it is not even reacting to keybindings in /etc/mplayer/input.conf (which was an empty folder, I had to recreate this file) anymore.

How can I get mplayer to react to keyboard and/or mouse input again?? Thank you! :)

Edit: After further investigation, I suspect the problem has to do with the message "Buffer is too small for command pause" which I get after running mplayer. This is the only content of my input.conf files:

g pause

Answer 1

sudo apt remove mplayer only removes the program but not its configuration files to preserve them for a new installation. Try to use

rpi ~$ sudo apt purge mplayer
rpi ~$ sudo apt autoremove
rpi ~$ sudo apt update
rpi ~$ sudo apt full-upgrade

That will also remove all configuration and maybe orphaned libraries. Then reboot and install mplayer again.