[MPlayer-users] Installation of MPlayer

[Ajith Karat]

Hello,

 

Recently, I had installed Ubuntu ver 6.x on my home PC. Still I am facing difficulties in installation of MPlayer. I would like to know the perfect combination of MPlayer packages, preferably latest, so that I can download from a nearby internet café and install it on my home PC. (Again, I don't have a net connection at home right now.)

 

 

Using the README from mplayerhq.hu [3] as a baseline, install the codecs

with the following commands.

 

            $ tar -xjf essential-20040922.tar.bz2

            $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs

            $ sudo cp essential-20040922/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/

 

Time to compile MPlayer.  Issue these commands.

 

            $ tar -xjf MPlayer-1.0pre5.tar.bz2

            $ cd MPlayer-1.0pre5

            $ ./configure --enable-gui  

AJK: I am getting an error here saying that new version of gcc is required to proceed further. How the latest gcc will be downloaded? From which site?

            $ make

            $ sudo make install

 

Now install the fonts and skin.

 

            $ cd

            $ tar -xjf font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2

            $ sudo cp font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-14-iso-8859-1/* /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/

            $ tar -xjf Blue-1.4.tar.bz2

            $ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default

            $ sudo cp -r Blue/* /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default/

 

Finally, copy over the included conf files.

 

            $ sudo cp MPlayer-1.0pre5/etc/* /usr/local/etc/mplayer/

 

Test your install by launching the graphical version of MPlayer.

 

            $ gmplayer

AJK: I am not able to invoke GUI version of MPlayer:-(

 

Thanks 'n regards,

Ajith

 

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