I actually don't believe that the MPlayer rpm in the apt repository is
compiled with Win32 and Quicktime support. I was unable to get Win32 or
Quicktime stuff to play until I compiled MPlayer from source. Now the
Quicktime stuff works great, but the Win32 codec that I am using garbles the
video terribly, though audio plays fine (even accompanying the garbled
video). After trying Mplayer, when I log out a ghost image appears wherever
Mplayer last tried to play video to the screen (a big green/yellow box). It
stays there even after restarting X. Only rebooting gets rid of it. It's
really strange. I'm using the codec off of the Mplayer site. I'm not sure how
to fix that. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate hearing them.
Aside from the Win32 codec problem (I have heard reports from others that it
works fine), here is my list of instructions. Anyone who knows what they are
doing can stop reading this post now.
Installing mplayer to view movies:
get Mplayer source:
wget http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2
get windows media player codec:
wget http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.tar.bz2
get quicktime codec:
wget http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt6dlls.tar.bz2
get default gui skin:
wget http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/Skin/default-1.7.tar.bz2
Unpack codecs and put in a library dir:
tar xjvf w32codec.tar.bz2
mv w32codec-0.90 /usr/share
tar xjvf qtdlls.tar.bz2
cd qtdlls
mv * /usr/share/w32codec-0.90
Compile Mplayer
Unpack mplayer source: tar xjvf MPlayer-0,90pre8.tar.bz2
cd MPlayer-0.90pre8
configure make: ./configure
--with-win32libdir=/usr/share/w32codec-0.90 --enable-gui --enable-qtx-codecs
--with-win32libdir sets the win32 codecs libraries to the
specified directory
--enable-gui compiles the binary for gmplayer
--enable-qtx-codecs tells mplayer to use the qt codecs that
you downloaded placed in the win32libdir
make
make install
Put skins into skins directory for GUI:
tar xjvf default-1.7.tar.bz2
mv default /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/
To make mplayer a mozilla browser plug-in:
Grab the source from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in_v0.40.tar.gz?download
Extract and run make in the directory you extracted it to
Copy mplayerplug-in.so to your Mozilla plugins folder
To uninstall mplayer:
from the mplayer source code directory: make uninstall
then delete /usr/share/w32codec
To use mplayer as a browser plugin you still need to run the
mplayerpug-in as explained at the top of these instructions.
I hope this helps.
Richard Esplin
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:18, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote:
<snip>
> > could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. I'm
> > running Red Hat 8.0.
>
> Although you could install it from source, you'll do just fine by using
> apt:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install mplayer
>
> If you want, you can download all the codecs from mplayer's site and
> untar them and then put them all in /usr/lib/win32.
>
> Michael
>
<snip>
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