i've been tryin to install mplayer for about 4 hours now. I really want a diff OS but i'm not so sure if i want it this bad!!!!! ok i got it installed but just some stupid ass text version in the terminal. i've tried to recompile it with "--enable-gui" which just f's up bad. I just want to play a f*ing movie!!!!

it's ok, calm down, lol, it takes some time, especially once you've worked with windows for a long time (terminals are not a bad thing, they are often more powerful and more reliable)

may i suggest using xine? search for xine on the net, go to their homepage, download the xinelib (the newest beta, it works extremelely well) and if u want a gui, install gxine (located on the same page)

to install, cd into the directories of those files and do
./configure
make install


for both... install any dependencies u may come across, once you're done with both, run gxine in a terminal and up comes a gui with lots of features and fully capable of dvds, mpeg, etc.

*note: do not do the quick start intro thing in gxine, it doesn't work well, just skip it, this only appears the first time u start gxine

Do you know where xinelib installs and how to configure the library path?

Get Apt Get, heres the link it will find the RPM you need and solve the probs with dependencies.

http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/apt/

after you get it run

apt-get install synaptic

Syaptic is the GUI portion of apt-get which is equivilent to the Windows update... saved my ass!

I also had tons of probs trying to compile mplayer with this I typed in mplayer...done deal!

I'm still working on compiling everything from source cuz I know it's better, but this is my life support in the meantime

and if u dont wanna see the cmdline outputs, run "gmplayer" - thats what u want