mplayer /apt-get

[Cyber Source]

"rpm -qa | grep whatever" will search your rpm database for installed 
rpms, with whatever being some sort of name your searching for, start 
small and increase as necessary, etc. Your rpm database might be boned, 
last I remember, you were still running an rc. You could manually search 
the file /var/log/rpmpkgs for a listing of the rpms installed.
As far as your pc running gmplayer, I saw that you are still running a 
266mhz pc?! I think it's probably a small miracle your running mplayer 
or gmplayer let alone having it hang when you try to jump through a 
file. Xine may handle it better but just the fact it's workin on that 
ol' girl is quite an accomplishment. IMHO.

Joe wrote:

> 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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