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Apt-Get w/ the internet?

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ravuya:
mplayer was easier than hell for me to build from source, even when I wanted to include aalib... configure, make, make install, worked great for me..

however, installing from RPMs was a different story altogether.. *shudder*

ForceSphere:
Goddamn dude tell me about it, i finally get a codec i see that i need to play Mpeg's in Mplayer and it gives me shit about i needing another file...god damnit, i now know wut RPM hell is, i fear it

Yea if you can slip me a link to a working MPEG, MPG, AVI codec for Mplayer, right now im using MTV and it blows

Calum:
it took me about nine months to finally get mplayer installed. reason was i was fooling around with rpms thinking they would be easier to use! actually i had to do configure --help to find out all the arguments to give to configure, then i did 'configure' (plus about 3 lines of options), 'make' and 'make install'. Then i followed the instructions for the win32 codecs that it tells you about on the mplayerhq.hu site (i think that's the right url?) and created a directory in /usr/lib/win32 (i think that's where it is) containing the win32 dlls.
Now i can play all the movie types except DVDs   :mad:  oh and i haven't tried out a divX yet either.

ForceSphere:
My first intensions where to use RPM's too thinking they'd be like .exe's and be easy to use...my holy christ was i wrong. i got Mplayer installed now but it will only play MP3s.  I tried using .tar's but most of the time it gives me some bullshit that it's not the right format or something, I am DL'ing w32codec.tar.bz2 now in hopes it will work and i can finally watch some MPEGs.

One last thing, i do love linux, i still feel the need for windows because many applications still require only windows (i.e. games and drivers GRRRR i have 5 spare sound cards and none work with redhat)

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