I can't seem to install the realvideo codec properly in mplayer. I tried the documentation at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs.html#realvideo which indicated:

How can I install the realvideo codecs properly in mplayer?

During the ./configure process:
./configure --reallibdir=/path/to/libs

Where /path/to/libs is wherever Real ends up putting them. If you have the "aftermarket" ones, point to that location instead.

Finish up as usual:
make (check) (test)
checkinstall

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here is some my work(with help of some members) on mplayer and i am enjoying

Download latest or steble Mplayer and Mplayer Codecs tarball , Skins and fonts
Here i download Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2and extralite.tar.bz2 (its Codec file) from
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html
Installation Steps-
1- First install Codec file

You untar them into a directory, usually: /usr/lib/win32
So something like: tar xvjCf Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 /usr/lib
Might work, that is assuming when the tarball is bunzipped and untarred that the resulting file is a directory called win32. (it will creat an directory name of win32 win /usr/lib/win32)
I rarely take that chance though, so here's how I'd do it:
OR

mkdir /usr/lib/win32
cp Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 /usr/lib/win32
cd /usr/lib/win32
tar xvjf Mplayer-0.90.tar.bz2 (it will untar in directory name of win32 win /usr/lib/win32)
If there is a directory now, cd into the directory:
cd win32
And move all the files out:
mv * .. (this command will move all files 1 step back directory)
And finally cd yourself out:
cd ..
And remove the directory:
rm -r win32
Be sure that last command didn't just remove the directory from /usr/lib instead it removed the directory:
/usr/lib/win32/win32 (which is unnecessary).


how you install mplayer:

Fist put the tar ball in some temp. directory and do
tar xjf MPlayer-0.90.tar.bz2
This will create an dir with the mplayer sources. cd in to the dir and do
./configure --enable-gui
(If you want it installed in an other place then "/usr/local/", then you have to supply an aditional agrument like
./configure --enable-gui –prefix=</where/ever/you/want> )
then just do
make
and
make install
. after that, we will see You can alraidy play movies, just do
mplayer /tmp/song/avseq15.dat (i copy a video song file in this folder)
Or, play vcd's
mplayer -vcd 1
After that, you will have to install the skin and fonts. download them at the mplayer site. It's called "font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2" .
Unpack the fonts in a temporary directory, by doin
ar xjf font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 (it will untar and creat some more directories that dir contan font directories like font-arial-<x>-iso-8859-1, where x is the font size. Select the font size you want and do, this command will copy all files from your specified font folder to ~/.mplayer/font/ or you can copy thses files throug Xwindows.

cp font-arial-<x>-iso-8852-1/* ~/.mplayer/font/

see Basic options and keys mplayer --help

I already installed mplayer a while back. Is it possible to simply install the realvideo codecs without re-installing mplayer?

nope, shame really...someone did mention a plugins directory for mplaeyr, but i *think* tehy were just completely geuss.ing... might be in the newest mplayer cvs's but i doubt it... recompile.... it's easy!!

I'm having some trouble here. I got the "all in one" (extralite) pack in mplayerhq.

[root@localhost MPlayer-0.90]# ./configure --reallibdir=/root/extralite
Detected operating system: Linux
Detected host architecture: i386
Checking for gcc version ... 3.2.2, ok
Checking for CPU vendor ... AuthenticAMD (6:6:2)
Checking for CPU type ... AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... athlon-xp
Checking for kernel support of mmx ... yes
Checking for kernel support of mmx2 ... yes
Checking for kernel support of 3dnow ... yes
Checking for kernel support of 3dnowex ... yes
Checking for kernel support of sse ... yes
Checking for mtrr support ... yes
Unknown parameter: --reallibdir=/root/extralite

what am I doing wrong?

red hat 9?

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-z fix: use atrpms.

see the link below and look at the atrpms kickstart page - get mplayer that way and it will automatically get the w32codecs

it will a ton of codecs in /usr/lib/win32/
i checked mine and realplayer is included, whether it will open your specific files is another story since videos can be encoded in a large variety of ways. it allows you to open the apple trailer though if you get the mozilla-mplayer plugin.