[wellylug] Mplayer / install

Edouard Chalaron e.chalaron at paradise.net.nz
Mon Sep 8 15:02:47 NZST 2003


Sorry
I made a kind of reply I hate. For Mplayer you'll find it here :

http://www.mplayerhq.hu
You'll find some Windows codecs as well + fonts, skins etc....

then follow :

mkdir /usr/local/lib/win32
cp win32codecs.tar.bz2 /usr/local/lib/win32/
bunzip2 win32codecs.tar.bz2
tar xvf win32codecs.tar
cd win32codecs
mv * ..
rm -Rf /usr/local/lib/win32/win32codecs

Then
./configure --language=en --enable-gui 

Caution !!! gcc should be > 3
make install
installl
get the font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 on the site and 
cp font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/cd 
/usr/local/share/mplayer/font/
 bunzip2 font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2
 tar xvf font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar
 
as a user make sure that ~/.mplayer does exist. if not : 

mkdir ~/.mplayer
cd ~/.mplayer
mkdir font
cd  /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/
cp font-arial-18-iso-8859-1/* ~/.mplayer/font
 
Copy the default skin to /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin 
cp default-1.7.tar.bz2 /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin

then in usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin do

cd /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin
bunzip2 default-1.7.tar.bz2
tar xvf default-1.7.tar
chown -R root:root *
chmod -R 755 *

Done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
type gmplayer to call it.

Edouard

 



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