error in mplayer instllation
 

hi
i downloaded Mplayer-0.90 source file for redhat linux 8.0. but its extension is .tar.tar still when i used tar xvjf MPlayer...
its untaring till /Gui directory but after file /Gui/skin/cut.h its giving
bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
prehaps it is corrupted
......
.......
tar: Child return status 2
tar:Error exit delayed from previous errors
after tht if i do ./configure i m getting errors
thnx for the help

If it is in the bzip2 format and you do:

tar xjvf mplayer.bz2

it should unzip and create the new directory. My guess is that it is probably corrupted.

it is not .bz2, that is the issue, as he said it is only tarred, so he should only use tar -xvf ( if what he said is accurate) :)
using -j makes tar try to take it off the bz2 format, but it is not bz2.

Also you have to be root sometimes, depending on where the files are being created!
The same is true while compiling source code.