Installing Mplayer 1.0 Pre7 From Source for new linux user

[jedipi 0]

1.Intro:

installation environment: FC3

This new version Mplayer can play rm file very well
and many bugges were fixed.

if you want to play stream media with mplayer,
please download the package from live.com
and put it to /usr/lib after compiled

then when you compile Mplayer
please use the following options
--enable-live
--with-livelibdir=/usr/lib/live

2.download:

- MPlayer-1.0pre7
-----------------
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

- Codes
--------
i. CODES-all
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

ii. win32_CODES-all
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

-Fonts
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

-Skin
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
I choose Blue skin. if you want to have different outlook, you can download the other s skin.

3. install code

CONSOLE

tar vjxf all-20050412.tar.bz2
mv all-20050412 /usr/lib/codes
chmod 644 /usr/lib/codes/*
chown root.root /usr/lib/codes/*

unzip windows-all-20050412.zip
mv windows-all-20050412 /usr/lib/wincodes
chmod 644 /usr/lib/wincodes/*
chown root.root /usr/lib/wincodes/*

4.install MPlayer

CONSOLE

tar vjxf MPlayer-1.0pre7.tar.bz2

cd MPlayer-1.0pre7

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayer/ --enable-gui --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/codes/ --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/wincodes/

make

make install

P.S. you can install it to wherever by modifying the --prefix value

options:
./configure #please refer to ./configure --help
--prefix=/usr/local/mplayer/ #install path.
--enable-gui #if you are not going to use mplayer in xwindow, you don;t this.
--with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/codes/ #specify the path for codes. Remember? we just installed the codes here.
--with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/wincodes/ #specify the path for codes

you have to wait for a while after make and make install
once it is installed
please copy the sample config file to /etc directory.

CONSOLE

cd etc
cp example.conf /usr/local/mplayer/etc/config
cp codecs.conf /usr/local/mplayer/etc/

5.install fonts

CONSOLE

tar font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2
cd font-arial-iso-8859-1
mv font-arial-18-iso-8859-1 /usr/local/mplayer/share/mplayer/font/
cd /usr/local/mplayer/share/mplayer/font/
ln -s font-arial-18-iso-8859-1 font

6.install skin

CONSOLE

tar vjxf Blue-1.4.tar.bz2
mv Blue /usr/local/mplayer/share/mplayer/Skin/
cd /usr/local/mplayer/share/mplayer/Skin/
ln -s Blue default

now you can run gmplayer.....
enjoy it.

And sorry about my bad English. Hope you can understand me.

[madcrow 0]

Thanks for the guide. I'm more of a xine fan myself, but I like to keep an up-to-date copy of mplayer around too...