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Azain 05-30-2003 10:43 PM

MPG playing
 
Whats a good movie player for linux, It would be good if it was something that was in a package for redhat cause I just started and am having trouble learning linux.

rmartine 05-30-2003 11:33 PM

Xine is pretty good but the best one IMHO is Mplayer. There are rpm packages for it but I recommend you compile it from source. You'll know more about what media types you can play and you'll learn a lot about your hardware.

Good Luck

Go here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu

whansard 05-31-2003 12:59 AM

be sure to ask a bunch of simple questions on their
developer's forum too. like, ask which file to download
for your version of linux. say it's version 8. then ask how
to run it.
be sure to be wearing a fireman's protective suit when
you do that.

Azain 05-31-2003 05:36 PM

prob
 
It says that I can't install till mplayer 0.90 is installed too. I don't know what that is.

acid_kewpie 05-31-2003 05:40 PM

what mplayer 0.90 is? it's the current release of mplayer.... :confused:

if you're installing from RPM files then there a couple you'll need mplayer mplayer-common mplayer-skins etc... maybe that's what you mean

acid_kewpie 05-31-2003 05:40 PM

and what does contitually mean?

Azain 05-31-2003 09:23 PM

Thats a typo, Thanks for bringing it to my attention

Azain 05-31-2003 09:28 PM

Any other programs I can Use? I can't get Mplayer to install.

MasterC 05-31-2003 10:41 PM

Xine:
http://xine.sf.net

KDE has some media player, something like NoAutun

Cool

whansard 05-31-2003 11:58 PM

redhat 9 has to come with an mplayer rpm, doesn't it?
how could they have a distro without that?

there's about 10 packages you need installed though for
it to work with everything. that's tough for a newbie.
here's all the stuff my mplayer is linked against.

/usr/bin# ldd mplayer
libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0x40015000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0x40037000)
libdivxdecore.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0 (0x40045000)
libpng.so.2 => /usr/lib/libpng.so.2 (0x40091000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x400bc000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x400cb000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0x400ea000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40172000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x40176000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x40189000)
libungif.so.4 => /usr/lib/libungif.so.4 (0x401a0000)
libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (0x401a8000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40400000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4040c000)
libSDL-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 (0x404b0000)
libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0x40522000)
libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0x4052a000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4053c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40559000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4064e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
libglide3.so.3 => /usr/lib/libglide3.so.3 (0x40657000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40756000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40761000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40778000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4078b000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x407d5000)
libasound.so.1 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.1 (0x407dd000)

stephenk 06-01-2003 03:15 AM

Re: prob
 
Quote:

Originally posted by Azain
It says that I can't install till mplayer 0.90 is installed too. I don't know what that is.
Hi. Azain. i think you can try to use rpm to install
down the skin, the source file, and the gui. and then install them

and when you try to run it, remember to use option -vo x11, if not your player won't properly

i tried it myself, it works fine till now

stephenk 06-01-2003 03:17 AM

Try to do a serach on google
rpm + Mplayer

you will find those 3 rpm files you need

whansard 06-01-2003 04:30 AM

you can command line it
rpm -Uvh package.rpm --nodeps

Azain 06-01-2003 02:53 PM

Whenever I try to make install I get about 16 Error messages

whansard 06-01-2003 03:00 PM

i thought you had rpm's. did you give up on those?

http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linu...ayer/i686.rh8/

these are for redhat 8. they'll probably work on your 9.

rpm -Uvh package --nodeps
then if it doesn't work
rpm -e package --nodeps
you can add --force onto the end of that if necessary.


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