Hi,
I'm running KDE on a SuSe 9.1 Pro 64 bit on my AMDFX machine and I'm trying to get a working install of mplayer. I configured and compiled mplayer using:

linux32 ./configure --as='as --32' --cc='cc -m32'
make
make install

because I wanted to support win32 dll file formats
but when I went to play my avi files it didn't work, the top of the screen became filled with black lines and sound was played but the picture wasn't displayed.

so I tried

./configure --with-x11libdir=/usr/X11R6/lib64 --enable-gui
make
make install

and got the following output from configure:

Detected operating system: Linux
Detected host architecture: x86_64
Checking for cc version ... 3.3.3, ok
Checking for mplayer binary name ... mplayer
Checking for extra headers ... none
Checking for extra libs ... none
Checking for i18n ... yes
Checking for setlocale() ... yes
Checking for iconv ... yes
Checking for langinfo ... yes
Checking for language ... using en (man pages: en)
Checking for enable sighandler ... yes
Checking for runtime cpudetection ... no
Checking for restrict keyword ... __restrict
Checking for kstat ... no
Checking for posix4 ... no
Checking for lrintf ... yes
Checking for nanosleep ... yes
Checking for socklib ... yes (using -lnsl)
Checking for inet_pton() ... yes (using -lnsl)
Checking for inttypes.h (required) ... yes
Checking for int_fastXY_t in inttypes.h ... yes
Checking for word size ... 64
Checking for stddef.h ... yes
Checking for malloc.h ... yes
Checking for memalign() ... yes
Checking for alloca.h ... yes
Checking for mman.h ... yes
Checking for dynamic loader ... yes
Checking for dynamic a/v plugins support ... no
Checking for pthread ... yes (using -lpthread)
Checking for sys/soundcard.h ... yes
Checking for sys/dvdio.h ... no
Checking for sys/cdio.h ... no
Checking for linux/cdrom.h ... yes
Checking for dvd.h ... no
Checking for BSDI dvd.h ... no
Checking for HPUX SCSI header ... no
Checking for userspace SCSI headers (Solaris) ... no
Checking for termcap ... no
Checking for termios ... yes (using sys/termios.h)
Checking for shm ... yes
Checking for linux devfs ... no
Checking for scandir() ... yes
Checking for strsep() ... yes
Checking for strlcpy() ... no
Checking for strlcat() ... no
Checking for fseeko() ... yes
Checking for localtime_r() ... yes
Checking for vsscanf() ... yes
Checking for posix select() ... yes
Checking for gettimeofday() ... yes
Checking for glob() ... yes
Checking for sys/sysinfo.h ... yes
Checking for Mac OS X APIs ... no
Checking for Samba support (libsmbclient) ... no
Checking for 3dfx ... no
Checking for tdfxfb ... no
Checking for tdfxvid ... no
Checking for tga ... yes
Checking for DirectFB headers presence ... yes (using -I/usr/include/directfb)
Checking for DirectFB ... yes (920)
Checking for X11 headers presence ... not found (check if the dev(el) packages are installed)
Checking for X11 libs presence ... yes (using -L/usr/X11R6/lib64)
Checking for X11 ... no
Checking for DPMS ... no
Checking for Xv ... no
Checking for XvMC ... no
Checking for Xinerama ... no
Checking for Xxf86vm ... no
Checking for DGA ... no
Checking for OpenGL ... no
Checking for /dev/mga_vid ... no
Checking for xmga ... no
Checking for GGI ... no
Checking for AA ... no
Checking for CACA ... no
Checking for SVGAlib ... no
Checking for FBDev ... yes
Checking for DVB ... no (specify path to DVB/ost/include with --with-dvbincdir=DIR)
Checking for DVB HEAD ... yes
Checking for PNG support ... yes
Checking for JPEG support ... yes
Checking for GIF support ... yes
Checking for broken giflib workaround ... disabled
Checking for VESA support ... no (not supported on this OS/architecture)
Checking for SDL ... no
Checking for Windows waveout ... no
Checking for Directx ... no
Checking for NAS ... no
Checking for DXR2 ... no
Checking for DXR3/H+ ... no
Checking for libmp1e ... no
Checking for libfame ... no
Checking for OSS Audio ... yes
Checking for aRts ... no
Checking for EsounD ... no
Checking for JACK ... no
Checking for ALSA audio ... no
Checking for Sun audio ... no
Checking for Sun mediaLib ... no
Checking for SGI audio ... no
Checking for VCD support ... ok
Checking for DVD support (libmpdvdkit) ... yes
Checking for DVD support (libdvdread) ... disabled by libmpdvdkit2
Checking for cdparanoia ... yes
Checking for freetype >= 2.0.9 ... no
Checking for fontconfig ... no
Checking for fribidi with charsets ... no
Checking for ENCA ... no
Checking for zlib ... yes
Checking for RTC ... yes
Checking for external liblzo support ... no
Checking for mad support ... no
Checking for OggVorbis support ... no
Checking for OggTheora support (only the CVS version!) ... no
Checking for mp3lib support ... yes
Checking for liba52 support ... yes
Checking for libmpeg2 support ... yes
Checking for Matroska support (external 0.6.0 or later OR internal) ... yes, internal
Checking for internal FAAD2 (AAC) support ... yes
Checking for external FAAD2 (AAC) support ... no
Checking for FAAD2 version ... 2.0
Checking for MacOS X SHLB (shared lib) support ... no
Checking for Win32 codec DLL support ... no
Checking for DirectShow ... no
Checking for XAnim DLL ... yes (using /usr/lib/xanim/mods)
Checking for RealPlayer DLL ... yes (using /usr/lib/RealPlayer8/Codecs)
Checking for LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries ... no
Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec (static) ... yes
Checking for FFmpeg libavformatc (static) ... no
Checking for libdv-0.9.5+ ... yes
Checking for zr ... no
Checking for bl ... no
Checking for XviD ... no
Checking for DivX4linux/DivX5linux/OpenDivX decore ... no
Checking for libmp3lame (for mencoder) ... no
Checking for DivX4linux encore (for mencoder) ... no
Checking for mencoder ... yes
Checking for fastmemcpy ... yes
Checking for UniquE RAR File Library ... yes
Checking for TV interface ... yes
Checking for EDL support ... yes
Checking for *BSD BrookTree 848 TV interface ... no
Checking for Video 4 Linux TV interface ... yes
Checking for Video 4 Linux 2 TV interface ... yes
Checking for audio select() ... yes
Checking for network ... yes
Checking for ftp ... yes
Checking for byte order ... Little Endian
Checking for shared postprocess lib ... no
Checking for OSD menu ... no
Checking for QTX codecs ... no
Checking for Subtitles sorting ... yes
Checking for XMMS inputplugin support ... no
Checking for inet6 ... yes
Checking for gethostbyname2 ... yes
Checking for GUI ... yes

Error: X11 support required for GUI compilation

All I really want to do (with this computer besides work :) is play mp3's, avi, mpeg and DVDs (if at all possible).

am I taking the right aproach to this, is this the right program to use and how do I fix these probles?

Thanks for any help.

Just get(google) RPMs for Xine or Mplayer.
You can still install all codecs after that...

Use Ogle for DVDs:
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml

I already did, problem is, I've found mplayer but not all it's dependancies. specifically libdv.so.2 (which I'm pretty sure I installed and it doesn't recognize)
should I just ignore and risk my system? that just doesn't seem right.

here are all the RPM? you?l need:

http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=index

that link has everything except the libcss for DVD decryption that you will need to do a Google search for

From reading other posts it seems like this is blasphemy, but....

I get the following:

[CODE]
libdv.so.2 not available
Required by:
MPlayer requires libdv.so.2
Conflict Resolution:
( ) Remove the Referring Package
Do Not Install MPlayer
( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies
liblirc_client.so.0 not available
Required by:
MPlayer requires liblirc_client.so.0
Conflict Resolution:
( ) Remove the Referring Package
Do Not Install MPlayer
( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies
liblzo.so.1 not available
Required by:
MPlayer requires liblzo.so.1
Conflict Resolution:
( ) Remove the Referring Package
Do Not Install MPlayer
( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies
MPlayer 1.0pre5-pm.1 conflict
Unresolved Requirements:
MPlayer requires libdv.so.2
MPlayer requires liblirc_client.so.0
MPlayer requires liblzo.so.1
Conflict Resolution:
( ) Do Not Install MPlayer
( ) Ignore Conflict and Risk System Inconsistencies
[\CODE]

these cannot be found on packman linux yet when I try installing from the packman linux rpm they pop up on the dependancy list.

That being said... I've installed libdv.so.2 several times. AND IT'S NOT RECOGNIZED!

I've tried the rpms, they were the first thing I went for. Then I tried the compile. With much effort I got a command line version that played sound.

All I want to do is play avi's and dvds. I heard Mplayer was the best (and one of the few) programs to use to do that.

Why not just disable compiling the GUI options... From your initial post it seems that is the only problem you're having...

--disable-gui

mmmmmmmmmm dependencies. now that's why RPM's are rubbish.

the error your having at teh start is that as lhach says, you are specifically requesting the gui (which really is a waste of time IMHO) without having previously installed xfree86-devel or xorg-devel rpm's to allow compilatino with their libraries.