MPlayer ready for Slackware 11

Panagiotis_IOA · 10-29-2006, 05:00 PM

I was trying to install MPlayer on Slackware 11 today and there were around 10 libraries missing. So, if someone wants to install MPlayer on his fresh-installed Slackware 11 he could just download the file I uploaded on the link bellow and simple run the install script to get everything done. I just gathered the required packages together (mplayer, libraries, codecs and KPlayer frontend):

http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~05004438/MPlayer.tar.gz

Bruce Hill · 10-29-2006, 05:53 PM

Could you make a Slackware package of that and include your mplayer.SlackBuild script?

Thanks for your work!

duryodhan · 10-29-2006, 09:19 PM

Hey,
I downloaded the mPlayer source and did make. It ran just fine on 2.6.18 kernel. I never did have any libs missing.
Infact check out Installation Journal

Boow · 10-29-2006, 09:39 PM

the only thing you might need is libdts or libdca you only need lame or xvidcore for mencoder. you could throw in x264 also. next time try downloading mplayer from the official site.

tuxdev · 10-29-2006, 09:59 PM

What if I don't want all the bells and whistles? Just let the everybody compile from source, there are less headaches that way.

Panagiotis_IOA · 10-30-2006, 04:02 AM

The headache comes when you want to install just MPlayer on a fresh (almost) full install and cannot load the application because 10 libraries are missing and then you have to search for one library after another. I had the same problems on Fedora with VLC, and I had the same problems with other video players on previous Slackware releases. Sometimes it's not that good wasting 1 hour for just to see a video.
If you don't need everything you just don't download it, nobody forced you to do so. This is opensource and everybody can offer something in a way he thinks it may help others, that's all, nothing more and nothing less

swampdog2002 · 10-30-2006, 03:18 PM

Thank you for your effort. Does MPlayer have a GUI by default, or do I need to install Kplayer to get this sort of functionality?

tuxdev · 10-30-2006, 03:36 PM

Mplayer has a GUI, but it is ./configure dependent, and therefore largely machine dependent. How else can you play videos in X Windows anyway? There isn't a Mplayer-lib and Mplayer-ui like Xine does.

hrp2171 · 10-30-2006, 03:47 PM

Amazing how other distributions have figured out how to fix the dependency issue you ran into. However, Slackware land still insists on having us download and figure what we need after a few failed compile/install attempts.

Shade · 10-30-2006, 03:53 PM

Mplayer compiles fine on a default install. I'm not sure what the parent is going on about. Here's all I had to do...

Code:

- Download mplayer source.
- Download codecs
- Extract codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs
./configure --enable-gui && make && su -c 'make install'
mplayer file.mpg

I'm not sure what missing libraries he means.

-- Shade

Panagiotis_IOA · 10-30-2006, 05:25 PM

With "libraries" I mean: libfaac, libjack, libdv, libmpcdec, libspeex etc etc

keefaz · 10-30-2006, 05:53 PM

there is always http://www.linuxpackages.net for the extra librairies
like faac, jack, libdv... they have them all

XavierP · 10-30-2006, 05:56 PM

In the Tutorials section, check the instructions for installing Acidrip. The tutorial covers installing Mplayer first (it's required for Acidrip) and gives links. I use it to remind me of the steps I need to take and it never fails me.

Panagiotis_IOA · 10-30-2006, 06:29 PM

Good, next time I'll try that. For now MPlayer works

Boow · 10-31-2006, 08:31 PM

he must mean a binary the source has no problems compiling configure will use extra stuff if you have it on your system. only thing about compiling on a rpm or deb based distro is hunting down all the dev packages.