[wellylug] Help mplayer download

Bill Christiansen bill.christiansen at paradise.net.nz
Mon Jul 5 10:18:58 NZST 2004


dave elliott wrote:

> I recently downloaded mplayer for Redhat9 as a plugin for Websites.The 
> program downloaded into home folder as a tar.gz compression.Tried 
> extracting in fileroller to no avail. Does anyone have a complete 
> script I can type in a terminal to unleash mplayer into my computer so 
> I am able to view Websites.Mplayer would not download as a RPM 
> file.Why is it so difficult to get files/program downloads to 
> automatically
> launch themselves without the hassle.
>
>
not using RH myself but here's a link to rpm's for the latest version of 
mplayer (can also download additional codecs from here).
http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mplayer.html
This won't create the plugin for your browser though so you will need to 
check out the plugins section on this page:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/projects.html

When it comes to extracting tar.gz or tar.bz2 files an easy way if you 
can't remember the command line options is to use MidnightCommander (mc 
in a terminal) then highlight file and press f2 and choose extract from 
the menu.
Bill




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