Question about MPlayer
 

I want to download and install MPlayer.
There are two files I can choose, one is source, one is all-in-one package. Which one is better? Is all-in-one package including source and some codecs?

Also, how to deal with *.tar.bz2 files.


Thanks a lot

about *tar.bz2 files...
bunzip2 *tar.bz2 .... After that you have a normal tar...
tar -xvf *tar .... and it is done..
if the version of the packages are relative new, you can use direct...
tar xjf *.tar.bz2 ...
that is it !!
about mplayer i need more time ... i don't know this all-in-one package..
Regards

Thanks a lot.

I would highly recommend installing MPlayer from source. Be sure to read the install instructions from their website before installing though. For example, MPlayer wants to see the codecs for Windows installed BEFORE compiling and installing it.
Also, be sure to download a Skin too. Put the skin file in your ~/.mplayer/Skin directory before you run MPlayer (if you intend to use the GUI that is).

The All-in-one package is codecs only.
I installed from source without the additional codecs, and haven't needed anything else so far....haven't tried playing Real, WMV, or Quicktime files, though, which is probably what the codec pack was for.

even faster! tar -jxvf mplayer.tar.bz2