mplayer (was Re: Save As - how do I save html files as text...)

[Matthias Saou <matthias rpmforge net>]

Once upon a time, Craig wrote :

> I have little interest in running wine at this point - it is after, not
> another windows, but with respect to Windows Media Player, and in fact,
> multi-media on linux, is anyone here using mplayer?
> 
> <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/>
> 
> the thing that got me was the reliance upon compiling from source and
> their insistence that it not be distributed in binary format AND gcc
> 2.96 was insufficient, requiring a version 3.xx
> 
> So - has anyone gotten this to run on an enigma based system and on the
> scale of 1 - 10, how difficult was it?

It's tough... especially if you want the interface and not only the default
command-line.

But... it can be much easier, just download the source rpm here :
ftp://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/testing/mplayer/

Then rebuild it and you're all set, with a system meny entry and everything
(you may need to make a config file if you don't have one yet though, and I
think I forgot to put the one from the tarball in this package... which is
why it's probably better of in "testing" for now ;-)).

Matthias

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