absolute linux confusion - no doubt about it

Well there might be a SuSE package of mplayer somewhere.

www.mplayerhq.hu has Fedora RPMs but that isn't going to help you.

Check the SuSE repositories.

I can walk you thru the installation process but I would need to know what packages you've installed already ( you need a lot of development packages ).

If you want I could also ssh into your Linux box share the screen with you and compile it for you. That would require a high speed internet connection tho.

Zach_the_Evil is correct :-D

YaST is the best way to install it if you can find a premade YaST package at the SuSE repositories, otherwise source is the way.

That's not possible! He can't be!


Correct again my friend, you can't possibly be right ;-)


Just kidding. You're right...


I would have posted a link to a YaST package but I haven't been able to find one.

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This is how you would install the source [ assuming you have the prerequisites ]:

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wget http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2;
wget http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2.md5;

wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2;
wget http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/releases/codecs/MD5SUMS;

md5sum MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2 ; cat MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2.md5

# the md5sum should match

md5sum all-20050412.tar.bz2 ; cat MD5SUMS

# again the md5sum fomr all-20050412.tar.bz2 should match the first entry in the MD5SUMS file


tar xjvf all-20050412.tar.bz2

mkdir -p /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs/; mv -i all-20050412/* /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs

tar xjvf MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.tar.bz2

cd MPlayer-1.0pre7try2

./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs
make
make install

# it should compile and install as long as you have gcc 3.x or higher and are not using a 64bit distro
# if you have gcc 3.x or gcc 4.x and mplayer doesn't like it use:

./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --disable-gcc-checking

# if you have gcc 2.96 DO NOT compile mplayer upgrade gcc first

# if you have a 64bit distro like FC4 x86_64 you will probably have to do this or something like it:

./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc --cc=gcc32 --enable-gui --with-extralibdir=/usr/lib64 --with-extralibdir=/usr/X11R6/lib64 --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --disable-gcc-checking

# then

make
make install

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These commands have been tested and should work on FC4 i386, FC4 x86_64 and similar distributions.

You may have to add some flags to get them to work on your distro.

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./configure --target=athlon_xp --cc="gcc -m32" --as="as --32" --with-extralibdir=/usr/lib

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You will most likely need to build a 32bit MPlayer on FC4 x86_64 because all the codecs are 32bit and you cannot use them with a 64bit MPlayer.

The command above should build it.

On mine I'm building a 32bit and a 64bit MPlayer so I can use both.

You need

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--disable-gcc-checking
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To get configure to stop complaining about GCC but you must have GCC 3.x or 4.x 2.96 does NOT work.

NEVER try to build mplayer with GCC 2.96

If you are building on x86_64 you need to run this to build a 32bit MPlayer which will be compatible with the 32bit codecs @ mplayerhq:

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./configure --target=athlon_xp --cc="gcc -m32" --as="as --32" --with-extralibdir=/usr/lib
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You need

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--with-extralibdir=/usr/lib --with-extralibdir=/usr/X11R6/lib
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to pickup the X11 libraries so that the GUI works.

Of course you need to have all your libraries installed in the right places.

If you did a minimal install then it may not find all the libraries it needs.