[MPlayer-dev-eng] How to make mplayer work on Fedora Core 5?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tuesday, 18 April 2006 at 18:14, Crazy AMD K7 wrote:
> 
> Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 12:29:18 PM, Dominik wrote:
> 
> > Having the files in the filesystem is not enough for RPM. You have to have
> > a package that provides them.
> 
> > If you had used YUM for installing MPlayer, x264 rpm would've been
> > installed automatically, too.
> :((((
> I used
> ./configure --enable-shared
> make
> make install
> for installation of libx264.
> I didn't used YUM.

For a package-based distribution like Fedora, this wasn't the right thing
to do.

> As I wrote previously I type
>  # rpm -ihv mplayer-1.0pre8-0.7.20060406.i386.rpm
>  to install mplayer and got an error :(

I've just released a new build which doesn't require x264.

Regards,
R.

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