Thanks for the quick instructions! Worked first try (although I had to upgrade gcc from 2.96 to 3.0.4).
----- Original Message ----- From: "Damian G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query > download the tarball ( it contains MPlayer and Mencoder and it will do > everything you say you need ) and at least one skin. ( the skin works > for MPlayer, but for Mencoder you will still have to use CLI for now. ) > > oh and you will probably need the codecs, too. download the package > named "win32 codecs" unpack it and copy all of it's contents to > > /usr/lib/win32 > > unpack the mplayer-0.90pre5 tarball, enter it's directory, and do this: > > ./configure --enable-gui > > make > > make install > > once you have done this, you unpack your mplayer skin to > /home/(your-user)/.mplayer/Skin > > ( note the capital S on "Skin" ) and put the skin in a subdirectory. > (i.e. if you downloaded "default" skin, copy it to > > /home/(user)/.mplayer/Skin/default/ > > as you have compiled and installed MPlayer as root, make sure > you give your user permission to read the skin files. otherwise > mplayer will report it didn't find any. > > chmod +777 -R /home/(user)/.mplayer > > > ... and i think that's all there is to it. MPlayer is a huge program, > but all of those tons of information will be severely reduced once it > compiles in your machine and excludes all the stuff your computer > doesn't need. don't worry. > > once all is done, you can launch mplayer ( CLI ) or gmplayer ( GUI ) > mplayer's biggest problem for a newbie is choosing the video output ( " vo" ), > since you may found better features/speed with some drivers depending on > your videocard. some video drivers installed may not even work. > However SDL or X11 seem to work for almost everyone. > > ( " mplayer -vo sdl moviefile.avi " ) > > you can also play net streams, or to dump them to disk ;o) > > ( " mplayer -vo sdl mms://server.net/moviefile.asf " ) > > and > > ( " mplayer -dumpstream mms://server.net/moviefile.asf " will create a > "stream.dump" file that you can then rename to *.asf ) > > > > and mencoder ( CLI ) encodes movie files in virtually any format > available. notice, however, that mencoder requires very precise parameters > in the commandline, so it requires some reading... > > HTH > > > Damian
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