www.mplayerhq.hu is the old homepage for mplayer - it now redirects to
http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html - either one is good. To install mplayer:
download mplayer, at least one font, at least one skin and all the codecs.
Now, this may not be the most correct way of doing it, but it works for me (on a single user box):
Download all files to a directory - I use /tmp/mplayer, but you can use whatever you want.
Untar all files into this directory.
Create a folder called .mplayer in your home directory
In .mplayer, create folders called Skin and fonts and codecs.
In ~/.mplayer/Skins create a directory called default
When all your codecs are unzipped, copy the individual files to ~/.mplayer/codecs
Copy the skin files to ~/.mplayer/Skins/default
Copy the required font files (not the folders) to ~/.mplayer/fonts
Then, open a console and cd to the folder containing the mplayer files. Now for the fun part:
If you don't want a gui, as your regular user, run
./configure
If you do want a gui, as your regular user, run
./configure --enable-gui
When that is completed, still as the user, run
make
After a long old time, when it is completed, use
su -m to become root and stay in the same directory and run
make install.
And that's it.
Mplayer checks for codecs, etc first in /usr/lib (working from memory) and the it checks your home directory (~ is shorthand for your home directory). I put the required files in there so that you can move/delete/install them without having to use su.
The --enable-gui switch is the most basic one. To enable other options you would add the switches to that line - check the docs on the Mplayer site for details.
To run the gui mplayer, the command is
gmplayer.
