HOW-TO- Install mplayer

[pixel]

mplayer is an amazing media player for linux you all know I don't have to tell yet for my satisfaction I am telling

fine letz see how to install mplayer on linux from its source.

Dependency:
X, GTK, SDL...

extract the mplayer source to desired path say /usr/local/mplayer
extract the mplayer codecs to desired path say /usr/local/lib/codecs
now go to /usr/local/mplayer and type the following command

./configure --enable-gui --with-CODECSDIR=/usr/local/lib/codecs

if it configures with out any error
type

make

and then

make install

by default mplayer has no skins you have to load the skin in to the skin dir

extract a skin and put it in one of the following path.

/home/username/.mplayer/skin
/usr/share/mplayer/skin/

in
/home/username/.mplayer/

there will be a file named "config".

open that and type the following.

GUI=yes

and save it

now press META-F2
and type

mplayer or gmplayer

mplayer opens and you can watch movies on linux.

hehehe cool isn't it???

I don't how this doc is going to help other I felt like telling it and I have

thanx to all.

[ilja]

thx pixel,

or even better way:
http://fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

yum install mplayer

[JordanN]

perhaps I need their yum.conf prior to running that command?

[taylor65]

Add these lines in /etc/yum.conf, then you can do 'yum install mplayer mplayerplug-in'.
[dag]
name=Fedora Core Dag Wieers' repository
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc$releasever/en/i386/dag

[mustangfanatic]

Originally Posted by ilja

thx pixel,

or even better way:
http://fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

yum install mplayer

nothing found...?
I downloaded that new conf to my /etc directory as well

[Phantom X]

In http://tettnang.freshrpms.net/ always have mplayer packages, but is very fun to compile your own sources.

[imdeemvp]

I downloaded that new conf to my /etc directory as well

1st. you have to edit the /etc/yum.conf and add the lines to it
2nd. open terminal and become root and type: gedit /etc/yum.conf once its opened add these lines:

[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
#gpgcheck=1

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/
gpgcheck=1

[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag/
gpgcheck=1

and SAVE it!!

3rd. close it and from the terminal import the gpg keys for each repository: http://fedorafaq.org/#gpgsig
and you are done!!

[Varkk]

Isn't it a bad idea to mix the livna, freshrpms and dag repositories?

[imdeemvp]

Originally Posted by Varkk

Isn't it a bad idea to mix the livna, freshrpms and dag repositories?

not according to www.fedorafaq.org

[Varkk]

# Uncomment these to use them -- note that some packages
# from these repositories may conflict with the fedora.us
# packages. If you use these repositories, you may wish to
# comment-out the fedora.us and livna.org repositories.

From the fedorafaq. Freshrpms, Dag and many others are commented out in their yum.conf for the reason quoted above. So I was wrong about livna, it i fedora.us which conflict with Dag and Freshrpms.

[imdeemvp]

i only use the stable ones.

[PeTzZz]

./configure --enable-gui --with-CODECSDIR=/usr/local/lib/codecs

CODECSDIR should be lowercased. Otherwise it doesn't work.
You can see available parametres if you type

./configure --help

(It is lowercased there in my version of mplayer)

by default mplayer has no skins you have to load the skin in to the skin dir

extract a skin and put it in one of the following path.

/home/username/.mplayer/skin
/usr/share/mplayer/skin/

After that you should rename the extracted skin folder to 'default'. Otherwise gmplayer doesn't find it.

These were my remarks after installing MPlayer v1.0pre5 on Fedora Core 3.

Nice how-to otherwise.

[zAo]

Why dont you install apt?
Install the RPM from http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...nux/3/mplayer/

Then:

# Get the packagelist
$ apt-get update

# Install mplayer with all its dependencies
$ apt-get install mplayer

[jale2ice]

Why don't you just add the freshrpm repo to /etc/yum.redo.d/ ?

Then: yum install mplayer

[Varkk]

As staed above, just use the yum.conf in the fedorafaq and be done with it