Howto Install MPLAYER+MENCODER

Mplayer includes mencoder in the same package.

Dependencies:

Mplayer has a few dependencies:

1. xvidcore:

wget http://oratoronline.com/how2/video_share_modules/source_directory/mplayer_mencoder/xvidcore-1.1.0-0.lvn.1.3.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh

2. libXvMCW:

wget http://oratoronline.com/how2/video_share_modules/source_directory/mplayer_mencoder/libXvMCW-0.9.3-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh libXvMCW-0.9.3-1.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm

3. libtheora:

http://oratoronline.com/how2/video_share_modules/source_directory/mplayer_mencoder/libtheora-1.0alpha7-1.i386.rpm

rpm -Uvh libtheora-1.0alpha7-1.i386.rpm

libtheora has couple of dependencies, libvorbis and libogg, in case they are not installed on the system, please:

Dependencies:

yum install libogg

yum install libvorbis

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Codecs for mplayer:

wget http://oratoronline.com/how2/video_share_modules/source_directory/mplayer_mencoder/essential-20071007.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2

Untar and copy all files in the folder to /usr/local/lib/codecs

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs

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Now for MPlayer:

wget http://oratoronline.com/how2/video_share_modules/source_directory/mplayer_mencoder/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

cd MPlayer-1.0rc1

./configure

make

make install

Verify: Run following to verify

mplayer

mencoder

Path: whereis mplayer

whereis mencoder

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