Are all files in MPlayer essential Linux package needed ?

samael26 · 01-08-2005, 10:59 AM

Hi people,

Well I'd just like to see Mplayer do the job it is supposed to do,
so i went to their site, downloaded the" essential linux package" .
On a previous post I saw that codecs have to be untarred into /usr/lib/win32
Is it the proper directory's name or is it a bit different ? Does it have to be created ?
Could someone be just a little more precise and give me the essential steps to follow , which codecs I really need , or if I have to ust untar the whole lot (9 Mb) in the correct directory ?
Many thanx for your answers

acid_kewpie · 01-08-2005, 11:31 AM

if you get the brand new source and the win32 codecs you should not need anything else. indeed the win32 codecs will most likely not really be used that much, depending on what you watch. install the codecs first into that direcotry, then compile mplayer. mplayer should pick up the files automatically and tell you it has, before you run make.

samael26 · 01-08-2005, 11:45 AM

Thnxs for your answer, Chris

As a matter of fact i have already installed Mplayer when i upgraded from Mandrake 10 to 10.1, it was included as an rpm, but that was just the GUI for it I'm afraid.
So, should I uninstall it, go to the Mplayer site, grab the sources and install first the codecs as you mentionned, before running make to compile Mplayer ? Or can I do it just now without the bother of uninstall/compile ?

Thnx again

acid_kewpie · 01-08-2005, 11:51 AM

people think that mplayer is hard to install, so always go from rpms. truth is that it's much much harder to install from RPM's than it is from source! going from source MPlayer will happily detect or not detect whatever it wants to and biuld itself to match that. if it can't find something, it will simply not try to compile that piece of functionality, rather than giving a crappy RPM dependency error for 50 packages you know you do not want to make use of.