little mplayer help

I nned to Install mplayer 0.90-1 but it needs mplayer-common-0.90 <- the 0.90 bein plain and I cant find it ne where can u help me?

Also if I get this workin will I be able to play movies in a Mozilla browser?

You should definitely look into getting/install/using a program called apt4rpm (apt-get for Redhat) and it's graphical front end Synaptic. Both can be found at www.freshrpms.net Get them, install em, and afterwards to install applications it will resolve all dependencies automatically for you.

HTH

Cool

does it do it automatically, or how do I use it?

Install it, it is all there young Jedi.

Read the man page if you get hung up, but if you install Synaptic, it should all pretty much be self-explanatory

Cool

well I installed it but when I was it gave me a weird error:

 rpm -ivh apt4rpm-0.65-0.src.rpm --force
warning: user richard does not exist - using root
warning: user richard does not exist - using root
   1:apt4rpm                ########################################### [100%]

The richard part also there isnt a man page for it i ready checked

You installed using a src.rpm You have to get a precompiled binary...

Click the link at the top of the page...
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...6-fr1.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...6-fr1.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...-1.fr.i386.rpm

Install those.

Cool

wats an .src rpm?

It's a source RPM file, so you can get RPM's that are compiled specific to your architecture. It's one of those things though, that basically "if you don't know, you don't need it" so I wouldn't worry about it, just make sure you look for precompiled binaries and not src.rpm when getting programs.

Cool

here is easy way to install mplayer. i am runing mplayer with this folowinf steps. and u can also try xine player which is also good and easy to use

for mplayer
Download latest or steble Mplayer and Mplayer Codecs tarball , Skins and fonts
Here i download Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2and extralite.tar.bz2 (its Codec file) from
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html
Installation Steps-
1- First install Codec file

You untar them into a directory, usually: /usr/lib/win32

So something like: tar xvjCf Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 /usr/lib
Might work, that is assuming when the tarball is bunzipped and untarred that the resulting file is a directory called win32. (it will creat an directory name of win32 win /usr/lib/win32)
I rarely take that chance though, so here's how I'd do it:

OR

mkdir /usr/lib/win32
cp Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/win32
cd /usr/lib/win32
tar xvjf Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 (it will untar in directory name of win32 win /usr/lib/win32)
If there is a directory now, cd into the directory:
cd win32
And move all the files out:
mv * .. (this command will move all files 1 step back directory)
And finally cd yourself out:
cd ..
And remove the directory:
rm -r win32

Be sure that last command didn't just remove the directory from /usr/lib instead it removed the directory:
/usr/lib/win32/win32 (which is unnecessary).


how you install mplayer:

Fist put the tar ball in some temp. directory and do
tar xjf MPlayer-0.90.tar.bz2
This will create an dir with the mplayer sources. cd in to the dir and do
./configure --enable-gui
(If you want it installed in an other place then "/usr/local/", then you have to supply an aditional agrument like
./configure --enable-gui –prefix=</where/ever/you/want> )
then just do
make
and
make install
. after that, we will see You can alraidy play movies, just do
mplayer /tmp/song/avseq15.dat (i copy a video song file in this folder)
Or, play vcd's
mplayer -vcd 1
After that, you will have to install the skin and fonts. download them at the mplayer site. It's called "font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2" .
Unpack the fonts in a temporary directory, by doing

tar xjf font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 (it will untar and creat some more directories that dir contan font directories like font-arial-<x>-iso-8859-1, where x is the font size. Select the font size you want and do, this command will copy all files from your specified font folder to ~/.mplayer/font/ or you can copy thses files throug Xwindows.

cp font-arial-<x>-iso-8852-1/* ~/.mplayer/font/

do you have a more direct link to the filez cuz I cant find the codecs.

I think I got it installed but how do I get the graphical interface up??

also is it wise to run apt-get upgrade? also on every one of the rpms I try to install w/ apt-get it gives me this error:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package imwheel-0.9.9-1.i686.rpm

On every one(except it says a different pkg name). what could the prob be

Originally posted by SnowSurfAir I think I got it installed but how do I get the graphical interface up??

There are tons of threads on this, but it would seem to be the easy answer is:
compile it.

Grab the bzipped tarball from:
www.mplayerhq.hu
And install from that instead of from RPM's. Then to start the gui:
gmplayer

Cool

yeah well sry but it turned out I didnt install it yet