[MPlayer-users] installation

[Erik Grinaker]

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 16:16, Lin Yang Chen wrote:

> I have just subscribed to this list and need help with installation of
> MPlayer. I have got the file MPlayer-0.60.tar.bz2 in my Linux home
> directory but don't know how to activate it. Could someone help as I am
> very bad at using the konsole? Thank you very much!

ok, here's what you need to do to get it working nicely (write all on
the console as it is written, except root password).

su
<enter root password>

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.60.tar.bz2

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip

DIR=$PWD

cd /usr/lib

mkdir win32

cd win32

unzip $DIR/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2

cd $PWD

tar -jxvf MPlayer-0.60.tar.bz2

cd MPlayer-0.60

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --confdir=/etc

make

make install

cd ..

mkdir -p /usr/local/share/mplayer/font

cd /usr/local/share/mplayer/font

unzip $PWD/mp-arial-iso-8859-1.zip

cp -R iso-8859-1/arial-18 .

mplayer --help


hope this helps you a bit, you should now have mplayer installed with
support for windows codecs and On-Screen Display. If you have any
problems, just ask.

oh, by the way, I wrote this based on memory, so I can't guarantee it's
going to work ;) and you also need to have unzip, gcc and make installed



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Erik Grinaker
UNIX/Linux systems consultant
Elan IT Resource - www.elanit.no

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