Hi...I'm just beginner of Linux..Can you please help me out...

I'm trying to install MPlayer 0.90-pre9...and this is my step of my compilation..please correct me if I am wrong:
(I've read manual installation and this is what I need to compiled,,)

1. I've downloaded binutils<<<<<tar xvjf, cd,./configure,make,make install<<succesfully
2.I've downloaded w32codec.tar.bz2 and this is what I've done:
-tar jxvf w32codec.tar.bz2
-cd w32codec
-./configure <<<<<<<< I can't use this command..why??? and How can I install w32codec.tar.bz2??

And in manual installation it says "Download and unzip w32codec.zip to /usr/lib/w32" <<<<How can I do this??


Thanks in advanced for your information and help

cd /usr/lib
mkdir win32
cd w32codecs
tar jxvf /home/angel/w32codec.tar.bz2

you probably won't really use those codecs if you do divx etc.. might be handy though.

well done for trying mplayer, it's easily the best around.

I've down loaded divx4linux-20020418.tgz How I can install it?
I've tried like this:

[root@localhost XBOXX]# tar xvzf divx4linux-20020418.tgz
divx4linux-20020418/
divx4linux-20020418/libdivxencore.so
divx4linux-20020418/libdivxdecore.so
divx4linux-20020418/decore.h
divx4linux-20020418/encore2.h
divx4linux-20020418/RELNOTES.linux
divx4linux-20020418/install.sh
divx4linux-20020418/DivX MPEG-4 Codec and Its Interface.pdf
divx4linux-20020418/license.txt
[root@localhost XBOXX]# cd divx4linux-20020418
[root@localhost divx4linux-20020418]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory


As you can see I typed ./configure but end up with No such file or directory

How can I installl it??

there is nothing to configure abuot the library, as it's just library routines, nothing is availble to change. you should still have a normal makefile though. you might want to install from rpm's though, it's a lot easier, and i'd guess your using redhat or mandrake, although you've not said....

ups..sorryy I've forgot to wrote my distribution of linux( I'm just migrate from microsoft to linux.. )
I have Red Hat Linux 8,,,
So Do I have to go to sourceforge.net to download divx for rpm?

if you are installing mplayer, then it actually comes with a different divx package, (libavcodec, part of the ffmpeg package) you can get teh divx4linux rpm's from rpmfind.net, but i'd try without it first, as it's less hassle. there are of course RPM's available for MPlayer too, BUT the pre9 version had a bug in it, it might have been fixed by now though. follow the links from the download page at http://mplayerhq.hu or try rpmfind.net again

thanks for that information...I have installed all of them...but I'm stil have problem..please take alook:

[XBOXX@localhost XBOXX]$ mplayer -dvd 2
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90pre9-3.2 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)

CPU: Intel Pentium III Katmai/Pentium III Xeon Tanner (Family: 6, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE

Reading /home/XBOXX/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/home/XBOXX/.mplayer/codec
s.conf': No such file or directory
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 110 video codecs
font: can't open file: /home/XBOXX/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup
scripts.
Using usleep() timing
Can't open input config file /home/XBOXX/.mplayer/input.conf : No such file or d
irectory
Can't open input config file /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf : No such file or
directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config

Playing DVD title 2
libdvdread: Can't stat /dev/dvd
No such file or directory
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd


Exiting... (End of file)
[XBOXX@localhost XBOXX]$


It's seems to me I have to make link /dev/dvd ..but I'm not really sure what the problem is??....maybe this is the problem if so..how can I make that link??

Thanks again

how do you not know what the problem is when you say what it is in the previous sentence? you need to make a link to /dev/dvd to the ide device that is your dvd drive.

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

where hdc is the dvd drive