why does mplayer have to hate me so much?!

[distortion]

its cool, thanks anyway. maybe i'll switch to redhat.

and if anyone else is reading this, yes i set the execute permission on the bin file that you download.

[voidmain]

On a side note, I did just get MPlayer to work with RealVideo/Audio on my Red Hat 8.0 box. I downloaded the source RPM (# apt-get source mplayer) and added the following lines to the configure section of the mplayer.spec file:

Code: [Select]

This requires RealPlayer to also be installed (because it uses RealPlayer's native codecs) *or* you can download just the RealPlayer codecs and put them in /usr/lib/win32 and change the "with-reallibdir" directive above to point to "/usr/lib/win32". Then build the rpm by:

# cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
# rpmbuild -bb mplayer.spec

There are some development packages that need to be installed to build it, when you try to build it will tell you which ones are needed. Then install:

# cd ../RPMS/i386
# rpm -Uvh mplayer* --nodeps --force

Now it should work.

Now for your slackware installation you could add the same configure options (--enable-real and --with-reallibdir). You could download and put the RealPlayer codecs in your /usr/lib/win32 directory and it should work.

Get the RealPlayer codecs here:
http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/

Once you install the codecs and configure/compile/install MPlayer accordingly it should work with RealVideo/Audio.

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[choasforages]

uhhh, i though it would be easyer to just install realplayer and point mplayer at the *native* librarys, or does that not work. and what about helix.

[voidmain]

By native libraries do you mean native MPlayer codecs? If so I am fairly certain MPlayer does not include such codecs. You have to get the codecs included with RealPlayer or from the other place I linked to (which I believe are nothing more than the codecs normally included with RealPlayer).

If you have something to add that you are sure about I am sure the original poster would be greatly appreciative of it. I am nearly certain he can get RealVideo/Audio support working with the intructions I gave him (not the Red Hat specific instructions but the last part of my post should work for Slackware). The link containing the RealPlayer codecs I got directly off of MPlayer's download page.

[ December 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by X11:
just use mplayer

Were you dropped on your head as a baby?