On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:49, Richard Esplin wrote: > 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.
It seems to have win32 codec support in the rpm. Works on my machine anyway. I know this because when I was missing a codecc (had the dll, was missing the .so file), mplayer complained. Right now everything works for me (realplayer stuff still sucks) from the rpm. Michael > > 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> > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
