MPlayer installation

[turbo_h4]

i'm following online instructions to install Mplayer but it does not like me bzip2 properly..
after using the bzip2 command (bzip2 -cd all-20041107.tar.bz2) I get errors like this:

MERICLC_MONETARYLC_CTYPELC_COLLATELC_ALL;=;=_.,._runtime error
TLOSS error
SING error
DOMAIN error
R6028
- unable to initialize heap
R6027
- not enough space for lowio initialization
R6026
- not enough space for stdio initialization
R6025
- pure virtual function call
R6024
- not enough space for _onexit/atexit table
R6019
- unable to open console device
R6018
- unexpected heap error
R6017
- unexpected multithread lock error
R6016
- not enough space for thread data

abnormal program termination
R6009
- not enough space for environment
R6008
- not enough space for arguments
R6002
- floating point not loaded
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

this is just a small part of the whole output.

Any ideas on what to do?

[puntmuts]

It outputs to stdout, which is most of the times your console. Using bzip2 you will at the best create an uncompressed tar file, which you'll have to untar as well.

Better use

tar -xjvf <name-of-tar.bz2>

to do the two things with one command.

[Stormblazer]

only use bzip2 to extract a file that ends with .bz2
For files ending in tar.bz2 or tar.gz, it's a lot simpler to just run these commands:
For tar.bz2, replace the % with j and with tar.gz replace the % with z:

tar -xv%f FILENAME

If you want it to extract to a specific directory instead of the current one, add "-C DIRECTORY" to the command.

[turbo_h4]

it's good! thanks!