Installing MPlayer

Nindoksei · 04-02-2009, 06:42 PM

i have FC10!!
so far i have downloaded the mplayer and its codecs.further i extracted both the packages( in DOWNLOAD folder).but I'm not able to extract the codecs in the /usr/local/lib/codecs directory.it says you do not have permission(despite of being logged in as su). how do we do this??

whats the next step by step procedure??
how should i know whether to compile the mplayer or is it pre-compiled??
do mention about the codecs issue!!

moxieman99 · 04-02-2009, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Nindoksei

i have FC10!!
so far i have downloaded the mplayer and its codecs.further i extracted both the packages( in DOWNLOAD folder).but I'm not able to extract the codecs in the /usr/local/lib/codecs directory.it says you do not have permission(despite of being logged in as su). how do we do this??

whats the next step by step procedure??
how should i know whether to compile the mplayer or is it pre-compiled??
do mention about the codecs issue!!

If you cannot extract into /usr/local/lib/codecs, then you have a permissions issue. You say you su'd to root in terminal, and you still cannot extract?

John VV in a different thread suggested using yum, after registering at rpmfusion.org. Unless you are like me and appreciate doing things the hard way, go that route by all means.

John VV · 04-02-2009, 10:04 PM

please see the fedora how to by Mjm for mplayer
"Personal Fedora 10 Installation Guide"
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...l#mediaplayers

and use yum to install mplayer
P.S. mjm uses "sudo" i don't i use " su - "
so change the how to a bit to use " su - " ( unless you do want to use sudo. )

that is unless you DO want to build about 20 dependencies from the source code BEFORE you can build the mplayer source
the source build will take about 2hours , if you know what you are doing, and about 1 to 2 weeks if you don't