ok, so I go through:
(located in /MPlayer-0.90pre10)
./configure
make
make install
and well, it doesn't work! I have also the RPM files:
mplayer-0.90-1.athalon.rpm and mpplayer-common-0.90-1.athalon.rpm along with a bunch of other files that follow. but these two files are dependant on eachother to be installed! try one, says it needs the other, try the other... you get the idea. so tried many ways of installing but nothing. this is the output I get from the ./configure
jubei@localhost MPlayer-0.90pre10]$ ./configure
Detected operating system: Linux
Detected host architecture: i386
Checking for gcc version ... 3.2.2, ok
Checking for CPU vendor ... AuthenticAMD (6:8:1)
Checking for CPU type ... AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+
Checking for GCC & CPU optimization abilities ... athlon-4
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
Checking for assembler (as 2.13.90.0.18) ... ok
Checking for Linux kernel version ... 2.4.20-18.9, ok
Checking for awk ... gawk
Checking for extra headers ... none
Checking for extra libs ... none
Checking for i18n ... yes
Checking for setlocale() ... yes
Checking for language ... using 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 word size ... 32
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 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 ... yes
Checking for termios ... yes (using sys/termios.h)
Checking for shm ... yes
Checking for linux devfs ... no
Checking for strsep() ... yes
Checking for vsscanf() ... yes
Checking for sys/sysinfo.h ... yes
Checking for 3dfx ... no
Checking for tdfxfb ... no
Checking for DirectFB headers presence ... not found
Checking for DirectFB ... no
Checking for X11 headers presence ... yes (using /usr/include)
Checking for X11 libs presence ... yes (using /usr/X11R6/lib)
Checking for X11 ... yes
Checking for DPMS ... yes (using Xdpms 4)
Checking for Xv ... yes
Checking for Xinerama ... yes
Checking for Xxf86vm ... yes
Checking for DGA ... yes (using DGA 2.0)
Checking for OpenGL ... yes
Checking for /dev/mga_vid ... no
Checking for xmga ... no
Checking for GGI ... no
Checking for AA ... no
Checking for SVGAlib ... no
Checking for FBDev ... yes
Checking for DVB ... no (specify path to DVB/ost/include with --with-extraincdir=DIR)
Checking for PNG support ... yes
Checking for JPEG support ... yes
Checking for GIF89a support ... yes
Checking for VESA support ... yes
Checking for SDL ... yes (using sdl-config)
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 ... yes
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 (libcss - old style) ... no
Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... disabled by libmpdvdkit2
Checking for DVD support (libdvdnav) ... no
Checking for cdparanoia ... no
Checking for freetype >= 2.0.9 ... no
Checking for zlib ... yes
Checking for RTC ... yes
Checking for external liblzo support ... no
Checking for mad support ... no
Checking for OggVorbis support ... yes
Checking for FAAD (AAC) support ... no
Checking for Win32 DLL support ... no
Checking for DirectShow ... no
Checking for XAnim DLL ... no (no suitable directory found - see DOCS/codecs.html)
Checking for RealPlayer DLL ... no (no suitable directory found - see DOCS/codecs.html)
Checking for LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries ... no
Checking for iconv ... yes
Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec (static) ... yes
Checking for libdv-0.9.5+ ... no
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 XviD/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 *BSD BrookTree 848 TV interface ... no
Checking for Video 4 Linux TV interface ... yes
Checking for audio select() ... yes
Checking for streaming ... yes
Checking for byte order ... Little Endian
Checking for shared postprocess lib ... no
Checking for GUI ... no
Checking for ftello() ... yes
Checking for vidix ... yes
Checking for joystick ... no
Checking for lirc ... no
Creating config.mak
Creating config.h
Creating libvo/config.mak
Creating libao2/config.mak
Creating help_mp.h
can anyone help me? I hate having to go back to windows to watch videos.... HATE WINDOWS! more so now that I have discovered Linux
