mplayer /apt-get

[Joe]

Thanks, Peter.  I downloaded your mplayer files and made progress on two 
fronts:

1) I started with 16 failed dependencies and got it down to 10.   It 
can't find a few that I installed like libogg, libvorbis, and 
libpostproc even when I added /usr/lib to PATH  (see below).  A few 
others I downloaded, but rpm said they conflict with what I already have 
installed.

2) I found mplayer 0.90... already installed on my system and tried to 
use it.  Mozilla doesn't know it exists, so I probably have to go back 
and try to get mplayerplugin to work again (failed last time I tried).

I went to a website that has Windoze Media files and it let me download 
one of the stubs (.asx file).  I then ran mplayer from the shell with 
the file as an argument.  It actually started to buffer the file and 
shows me the internal title etc.   Then, it dies saying I don't have the 
correct codec for it - acelpdec. ax.

So, I went to the web and downloaded win32codecs.tar.bz2 and installed 
them in /usr/local/lib/codecs (per instructions on the web).  The one I 
want is there. 

Then I downloaded and recompiled mplayer 0.93.  It still didn't work 
until I moved the codecs from where it told me to put them - 
/usr/local/lib/codecs to /usr/local/lib/win32.

Then, I was able to listen to a whole hour .asx file with not one 
glitch!  And I was only on at about 46K BPS!  It takes forever to 
start.  It buffered almost 2 megs before starting to play an 8 kbs 
stream!  But then, it kept loading as fast as it could and didn't even 
touch the web for the last half hour of play.

Questions:

1) Why can't rpm find the stuff I installed?  It doesn't say anything 
about mismatched versions, etc. - just that it couldn't find them.

2) I tried out gmplayer, but when I tried to fast forward the stream by 
clicking the > button a couple of times it seemed to hang.  Is there 
another front end, etc. I can try?  I'm looking for something groovy 
like realplayer 8 that has a slider bar you can move to anywhere in the 
program and "slow" fast forward buttons you can use for cue and review.

Thanks.

Joe

[root at localhost mplayer]# echo $PATH
/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib
[root at localhost mplayer]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-0*
error: failed dependencies:
        libdv is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        libdvdread is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        libogg is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        libpostproc = 0.90-fr2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        libvorbis is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        libxvidcore.so   is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        lirc is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        lzo is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        xvidcore is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr2
        mplayer = 0.90-0.rc4.4mdk is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90-0.rc4.4mdk
[root at localhost mplayer]# locate libogg
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0/white-xifish.png
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0/framing.html
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0/index.html
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0/oggstream.html
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0/stream.png
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-devel-1.0/white-ogg.png
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-1.0
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-1.0/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-1.0/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-1.0/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libogg0-1.0/README
/usr/lib/libogg.a
/usr/lib/libogg.la
/usr/lib/libogg.so
/usr/lib/libogg.so.0
/usr/lib/libogg.so.0.4.0
[root at localhost mplayer]#


Cyber Source wrote:

> OK, since a couple people have interest in mplayer. I put it up on our 
> website for download. Go to http://www.cybersource.us and click on the 
> downloads button, then  select mplayer. Remember this is a set of 
> packages to satisfy dependencies for the RH9 distro. If your doing a 
> Mandrake install, start with just the mplayer package itself and see 
> if and what dependencies it might need, then you could selectively 
> start including other packages. Just a note, when installing via rpm, 
> you can avoid a "leap frog" dependency hell of which comes first by 
> installing multiple packages at once, either by wild cards or multiple 
> package comments in the same rpm line separated by spaces. For 
> example, I install that all the packages in that tar ball by going in 
> the directory and "rpm -ivh *". Good luck and remember, one of the 
> packages in that tar ball is for the gui, so if you install that, you 
> can start the gui mplayer by typing gmplayer.
>

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