mplayer problem
 

I have installed MPlayer-1.0pre3 rpms in my PC (FC2). But it is not playing any video files. Only the audio is coming;But not the video. Can anyone help me plz.

Thanks in anticipation

Visit packman and get some codecs
http://packman.links2linux.de/

pre3 is pretty old now, get a pre7 rpm instead.

yeah i am downloading pre7. But do i need any codecs for that.
If so plz give a link to those.

THank You Mr.Kewpie

i tried to install MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.i586.rpm

It gave the following error.

warning: MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5f6842a4
error: Failed dependencies:
w32codec-all is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libaa.so.1 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libdirectfb-0.9.so.21 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libgif.so.4 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
liblzo.so.1 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libmad.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libtheora.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2

Can anyone help me?

they are dependencies... you need to get those pacakges too... nothign else to say really. well, other than installing through yum of apt will resolve these dependencies for you instantly.

i'm a BIG advocate of installing mplayer from source, that way it won't require any extra packages to do things you're not interested in.

how do you install a source?

hmm.. maybe not then. just get each rpm it asks for.

???

download the source package from mplayer website. Untar and unzip and inside the directory you'll find INSTALL and README files. Read them and you'll learn what you need to do to compile and install from source...if you hit snags come back here with specific questions.

Tux

He just didn't want it to get more complicated. Mplayer is not that easy to compile for a newbie. Just try to get used to installing rpm first, then later on when you find that you need some feature/need to recompile to play some file that you're not able to play with precompiled mplayer, then you'll need to compile it. But for the time being, just install from rpm, enjoy your movie, and then when you got time try learning to compile mplayer. As for the dependencies, the easiest way to install them is by using apt-get. Learn something about it, it's not that complicated. Or just download the rpms for the dependencies at freshrpms.net. :)