Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 02:47, Gil Weber wrote:
> 1)  ffmpeg-0.4.6-2.pm.1.i586.rpm
> 2)  gxine-0.3.3-0.pm.0.i686.rpm
[snip]
> 4)  libxine1

This is all completely unneccessary.  I have in the past tried various
downloadable builds, with various degrees of success.  But in the end I
always found it best to download the source and compile it myself.

Here's how:

You need to download
1) the MPlayer-0.9 tar.gz from http://www.mplayerhq.hu
2) the codecs they have available on the site.  The win32 codecs are the
most important, but the rest add nice things like quicktime ect.

First unpack all the codecs to /usr/lib/win32/

Then, compile so:

./configure --prefix=/usr --manpath=/usr/share/man --enable-gui
make
make install (or do checkinstall, so you'll have a clean rpm install)

This is really all there is to it.  And it's especially good if you have
a older/slower system, as the code is optimised for your architecture. 
On my old 500mhz Celeron this meant the difference between being able to
watch DVDs or not.

As a bonus kmplayer will still work.

Hans