mplayer installation help! could any please help me to find-

[skyfolly]

a doc concerning install mplayer in redhat, I have tried install using rpm packages, but the dependencies problems piss me off ! I forced install the mplayer-0.90-1.i386.rpm, but when I try to force the mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm, it just stops in the terminal without any respond, tried to find help in the mplayer! site, well, all I got was some swearing.



thanks

[Dolda2000]

Don't use the RPMs for MPlayer. You'll get much better optimization if you compile it from source instead, anyway.

[yowwww]

what distro and version are you using?

[skyfolly]

redhat 9.0
compliing? oh, ok, i will try that one, thanks!

[bpark]

Dolda,

Do you know where the realplayer codecs should go? The documentation page says to store it in the standard location. Would that be /usr/lib/win32 or the source directory?

[Dolda2000]

I don't know where the standard location is, but it's possible to specify the location to MPlayer's configure script. I have them in /usr/local/lib/mplayer/rp8codecs. I then configure MPlayer with:

./configure --enable-gui --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/rp8codecs/ --enable-qtx-codecs

I know that it's not easy to remember the configuration options, so, actually, I have stored them in a file that I call configuration, and then I call configure like this:

./configure `cat configuration`

[bpark]

I see. The Mplayer docs weren't very clear about it but I left all my codecs inside /usr/lib/win32/. I know I didn't enable that option during the './configure' so it looks like I'll have to build it again. Thanks for the help.