MPlayer!!!
Erik Espinoza
erik.espinoza at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 23:19:43 UTC 2004
Just out of curiousity, whats wrong with the rpms in your opinion? My
installation of the same software was as follows:
wget http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf ; cat yum.conf >
/etc/yum.conf ; yum -y install mplayer
And it works just dandy. I noticed that in your example, you didn't
even optimize for your architecture which is the main reason people
build from source. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer of
the source, but packages are the way to go whenever possible unless
you want to do optimization masturbation that is gentoo.
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:30:41 +0100 (BST), Art Ped
<cerenkov_fc2 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 15:47, Calvin wrote:
> > > I am having trouble installing mplayer!! they make
> > it seem so easy!
> > > any eay way to do it?
> > >
>
> I agree it sounds very difficult! I actually just
> installed it today on FC2 and it was easier than I
> thought. I am a complete newbie. Taking shortcuts may
> lead to problems - I recommend AVOIDING the rpms for
> Fedora.
>
> Go to the mplayer website, go to their download
> section and get the first file you see on the list
> MPlayer-1.0preblablabla.tar.tar or something like
> that. I assume you want to have a user-friendly GUI
> interface (like winamp) so I advise getting a skin
> also. You should download the win32essential codecs as
> well.
>
> I couldn't unzip the MPlayer{version}.tar.tar file so
> I renamed it .tar.bz2 (yes, it's cheating but it
> works) and then went to terminal and typed
>
> tar -xvjf MPlayer-1.0pre4.tar.bz2
>
> Before you do anything make sure you have libpng and
> GTK devel packages installed (Go to System Settings,
> Add/Remove applications and make sure you have the X
> Software and Gnome development options checked).
>
> unzip the win32 codecs and copy all the files (usually
> mostly dll files) to /usr/local/lib/codecs/
>
> now using terminal go to the new MPlayer-1.0pre5
> directory the original unzipping created, and type
>
> ../configure --enable-gui
> make
>
> and under root (type su and then the password),
>
> make install
>
> THe last step is to unzip your skin package, and copy
> the folder to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/
>
> Rename the skin folder to "default"
>
> Then in terminal just type
>
> gmplayer
>
> and it should start up fine. If you get an error
> message about a true-type font, ignore it, right click
> on the player, go to Preferences, go to the Font tab
> and click Browse. Go to /usr/share/fonts and just pick
> a ttf file (I went to the Openoffice directory). Click
> OK and you have a functional mplayer!
>
> Any problems don't hesitate to write back.
> I hope I've included everything and explained it well.
>
> Art
>
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