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Get your MPlayer packages from Alien Bob's repository. NB: You'll probably want the ones under ./restricted_slackbuilds also -- look
for them in http://alienbase.nl/slackware/
Slacky has a tar.gz with all the tgz packages required (a "megapack"), download it from their site. The mplayer gui is in italian, but you can remove that package and add the one from linux-packages, if you wnat to have it in english.
The codecs in the Slacky 'megapack' are not needed for my version of the MPlayer package because I built all of those external libraries directly into it.
You can download a bunch of Windows codecs for MPlayer if you encounter video files that the opensource libraries cannot play. A SlackBuild script that automatically downloads these WIN32 codecs for you and creates a Slackware package out of them is here: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac...player-codecs/
don't know about that "Slacky" link, but LinuxPackages.net Slack packages are not dependable
Hadn't got a problem with that metapack+mplayer from linux packages myself, don't know about others from slacky or same package in other machines apart from mine. If the original poster has a problem, all he has to do is removepkg and tell the maintainers that something's wrong with the package.
that slacky link provides *.SlackBuild files in the src directory as well, very promising not that i have ever had problems using mplayer scripts from slackbuilds.org but i was browsing for nessus and they have a slackbuild script for an older version of nessus which i guess i prefer to the rpm2tgz method, i m gonna try it first. and i still got the source directly from nessus and of course i ll review the slackbuild.
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