MPlayer!!!

[Art Ped]

In reply to Erik's question about rpms:

rpms just always tend to screw up on my system! I
agree they are probably easier in that you don't need
to type as much, but I would be less comfortable if I
ran into problems during rpm installation than during
a build from source. It's just that I know roughly
what's going on in the latter.

AP

 --- Erik Espinoza <erik.espinoza at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 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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