[MPlayer-users] install mplayer on fedora core 4, which way to go?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 09 August 2006 at 07:11, Rickard Närström wrote:
> onsdag 09 augusti 2006 06:57 skrev P. W.:
> > My questions are:
> > 1. how are these two ways different?
> The RPM contents pre-build binnaries, it takes less time to install and you 
> can uninstall it trow your packagemannager.

And that is a major benefit IMHO.

> But the pre-build binnaries isn't optimized for your CPU and you can gain
> slitly improvment in prefermanze by compiling mplayer your self.

... which only matters on slow CPUs.

> You also 
> gain the possibility to localize mplayers output and compile mplayers to use 
> what codecs/drivers you need.

The official packages contain a set of codecs which should be good for most
uses.

> You usually need to install a few *-dev packages to compile mplayer from 
> source.
> > 3. For the rpm install, where are the installed files
> > located or how to find them?

man rpm ;)

For example:
rpm -ql mplayer

Regards,
R.

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