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06-13-2005, 12:20 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Hyderabad
Posts: 35
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mplayer problem
I have installed MPlayer-1.0pre3 rpms in my PC (FC2). But it is not playing any video files. Only the audio is coming;But not the video. Can anyone help me plz.
Thanks in anticipation
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06-13-2005, 12:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2002
Location: .at
Distribution: SuSE, Knoppix
Posts: 532
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Visit packman and get some codecs
http://packman.links2linux.de/
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06-13-2005, 12:33 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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pre3 is pretty old now, get a pre7 rpm instead.
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06-13-2005, 12:39 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Hyderabad
Posts: 35
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yeah i am downloading pre7. But do i need any codecs for that.
If so plz give a link to those.
THank You Mr.Kewpie
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06-13-2005, 01:10 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Hyderabad
Posts: 35
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i tried to install MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.i586.rpm
It gave the following error.
warning: MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 5f6842a4
error: Failed dependencies:
w32codec-all is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libaa.so.1 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libdirectfb-0.9.so.21 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libgif.so.4 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
liblzo.so.1 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libmad.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
libtheora.so.0 is needed by MPlayer-1.0pre7-pm.2
Can anyone help me?
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06-13-2005, 02:28 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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they are dependencies... you need to get those pacakges too... nothign else to say really. well, other than installing through yum of apt will resolve these dependencies for you instantly.
i'm a BIG advocate of installing mplayer from source, that way it won't require any extra packages to do things you're not interested in.
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06-13-2005, 03:02 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: SuSE
Posts: 39
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how do you install a source?
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06-13-2005, 03:15 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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hmm.. maybe not then. just get each rpm it asks for.
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06-13-2005, 03:18 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: SuSE
Posts: 39
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???
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06-13-2005, 10:56 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Chicago
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
Posts: 1,158
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download the source package from mplayer website. Untar and unzip and inside the directory you'll find INSTALL and README files. Read them and you'll learn what you need to do to compile and install from source...if you hit snags come back here with specific questions.
Tux
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06-13-2005, 11:56 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: chikyuu (E103N6)
Distribution: Redhat 8.0 (2.4.25-custom), Fedora Core 1 (2.4.30-custom)
Posts: 357
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Quote:
Originally posted by sigh_ren
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He just didn't want it to get more complicated. Mplayer is not that easy to compile for a newbie. Just try to get used to installing rpm first, then later on when you find that you need some feature/need to recompile to play some file that you're not able to play with precompiled mplayer, then you'll need to compile it. But for the time being, just install from rpm, enjoy your movie, and then when you got time try learning to compile mplayer. As for the dependencies, the easiest way to install them is by using apt-get. Learn something about it, it's not that complicated. Or just download the rpms for the dependencies at freshrpms.net. 
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