realplayer installation on redhat 9.0

[hasan]

hi

when we got to realplayer site to download the rpm for realplayer 8, under instructions it says " For Red Hat 5.x installations: Employ the --nodeps option of the RPM installer. Users updating current installations should use the --force option. "

what is this --nodeps option ?

to install the *.rpm how would the command look like ?


thanks

[bpark]

What distro are you using and which version of real player have you downloaded? I'd suggest mplayer since it's so versatile in running different media formats.

[Dolda2000]

I agree; download MPlayer instead. It can handle Real Media formats, along with many others as well, and it's most likely better than RealPlayer anyway.

[hasan]

r u guys sure that mplayer will do better and handle all the real player format?

i use real player to see video news on bbc and other sites and play online streaming radio channels.

i have finally settled with redhat 9.0

[ i gave up on debian. debian is nothing but pain in the ass ]

last time i installed mplayer and all the instuctions dolda gave to run from command prompt. it did not work.

dolda said there r two versions of mplayer. and one is gmplayer.

since u guys will instruct me how to install it.

please let me know how to configure mplayer so that i can play dvds too.

by the way freshrpms.net has rpms for mplayer too.

but i believe to decode and play dvds we need some extra dvd decoders and patchs?

thanks

[Dolda2000]

To decode DVDs, you'll need the illegal LibCSS. See this thread:
http://www.linuxforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=3798
It was started by you, but later on, a new user, fragment, posted a follow-up question that included the use of LibCSS.

gmplayer comes with the normal version of MPlayer. Just run configure with the --enable-gui option to enable it.

In what way did it not work? Can you post some more descriptive errors?

[hasan]

dolda i dont get it

initially i downloaded all the libraries for xine from freshrpms.net even libdvdcss

still xine was not able to play dvds .........

if i download gmplayer and install it using *.tar or *.bz2 file .... can i install libdvdcss as an rpm ?

can the tar*ed installation access libdvdcss that was installed using rpm?

it shouldnt rite? cuz rpm is just the format or initialization of installation.

let me know

thanks.

[Dolda2000]

I don't know about the libdvdcss RPM, but it is common for library RPMs to only include the runtime files. To compile a program to use such a library, you will also need the development files (headers and the like). These are often distributed in an RPM with same name, and a -devel appended to the end (ie. libdvdcss-devel in this case). See if you can find that, and then try again after you have installed it.

[hasan]

yes there is libdvdcss-devel

i thought thats only for those people who r into programming and software development

so dolda if u can take a look at this page and let me know what other files i need to download and install for mplayer to make it play dvds as well as real player formats

http://shrike.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=847

[ u can see the list of all rpms on the left ]

also when there will be official support for dvd playback on linux?

[Dolda2000]

Yes, that's the one. I think that will enable DVD playback, but I can't really say for sure. Remember that you have to recompile MPlayer after you have installed libdvdcss-devel.

To install the support for RealPlayer formats, download the codec files from this page:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
It is very important that you read the documentation, located on this page:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs.html
Scroll down a bit to reach the RealVideo part. It is section 2.2.1.8.

[xylex_blaiste]

could you guys post a link to a site where i can download this mplayer? RH9 doesn't ship with a media for handling movies and sorts, or does it? i would prefer RPM than tar.