unofficial mplayer - HowTo

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:48:05 +1300, Christoph Georgi
<christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> Yes, those problems with the merrilat-mplayer are pretty old. You cannot
> install that package under Warty.
> 
> However, it is really not a big problem to compile mplayer, even if one
> is not an developer or packager, although one might not be adviced to do
> so, especially cause it's hard to get rid of mplayer once installed.
> 
> Here's a small HowTo for the desperate:
> 
> 1. Download the source code from mplayerhq.hu including the essential
> codec package, a skin, and a font package.
> 
> 2. Untar the Essential Codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs and the MPlayer
> code in /opt
> 
> 3. Install the following packages using Synaptic:
> gcc-3.3, gcc-3.4, libx11-dev, libpng, libpng10-dev, libpng12-dev,
> libgtk1.2-dev
> (You might require less, with those packages it works fine..)
> 
> 4. In a Terminal change to the /opt/MPlayer-1.0pre5 directory and run
>         $ sudo ./configure --enable-gui
> 
> 5. $ sudo make
> 
> 6. $ sudo make install

You can do 4 and 5 as a regular user, no sudo required.  6 must be
sudo if you want to install for all users on the machine.
 
> 7. Untar the Skin to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default
> 
> 8. Untar the Font package and copy the content of the directory with the
> appropriate font-size to /home/<user>/.mplayer/font
> 
> 9. Start the MPlayer with gmplayer. You can also cerate a launcher..
> 
> That should work out fine as it did for me, but (of cause) I cannot
> guarantee..
> 
> christoph
> 
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Regards,
Russ