installing mplayer

[Lionel van den Berg]

Renaud Vernet wrote:
> 
> I don't know what your problem is.
> In case nobody gets the answer to your question, you still can install
> the cvs version (see
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html#cvs), which is quite
> easy, and is more optimized for your computer.
> If you do it, you'll need to "sudo apt-get install cvs" before.

Thanks for the idea, I will use it as a last resort.

I am assuming that maybe I am missing some sources or something, but 
being new to Ubuntu I don't know all the details of the package manager.

Lionel.