[NIN]

I need a good movie player. I can install mplayer with an RPM but have a hard time installing the tar to get the gui. Mplayer still won't play eveything. Any suggestions.

[horndude]

Mplayer does play everything, and I mean everything.

get the codec package from Mplayers website and recompile/reinstall it

[Musjunk22]

I tried a player called Ogle, i think it is supposed to work through Kaffeine but it won't work I even installed the codecs and whatnot. I also tried mplayer I cant get that to work either.

[horndude]

whats the problem?Whats ./configure say when you run it with mplayer?Ive compiled it on a bunch of systems, not a problem yet.

[Musjunk22]

What is ./configure? sorry I'm really new at this.

[horndude]

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html

go there, download source and essential codecs

tar xjvf the codecs file and as root mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
then move the contents of the codecs file in that newly created codecs directory
then extract the mplayer file and cd into its directory, then run ./configure, if all goes well, then run make, and as root make install, poof, youve got mplayer.

[Musjunk22]

Yes, as i said i am very new at this, i got almost half of what you said, I'm confused about xjvf and mkdir, what is that? Do you mean extract the tar and make a new directory? and when you say extract the mplayer files into it's directory what directory is that? I have an rpm not a compacted folder.

[horndude]

yep, in a terminal--->screen with prompt where you type in commands
log in as root or type su to get to be root
tar xvjf essential<whatever its called>
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
cd essential<filename>........just type esse and hit tab key, it will fill in the rest
then mv * /usr/loca/lib/codecs
then cd ..
then:
tar xvf MPlay and hit tab key then return
then cd MPla and hit tab key and return
then ./configure
then make
then make install
then exit
type mplayer to test it
thats all there is to it

[horndude]

oh ya you will be starting wherever you downloaded Mplayer and the codecs to, usually its /home/<yourusername>

the above is called compiling form source code, ./configure generates a makefile so gcc which is the compiler can run with the right configuration and compile the program with the appropriate features in your system, make compiles it, make install installs it.

[horndude]

if youve got an rpm, I think you type rpm -i <filename>, but if your missing something you may have to track down some other rpms