-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 October 2002 05:09 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > bob parker wrote: > >On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:13, you wrote: > >>>Using Woody. > >>>Please advise what program to view avi files > >> > >>Install mplayer :) > >>here : http://mplayer.nmeos.net/ > >> > >>cya > > > >Thanks, I downloaded the K6 binary for my k7 box and installed just fine. > >When I start Mplayer it just thrashes around for a while and then dies. > >Any clues? > >regards > >Bob > > You should really consider installing mplayer from source. > There are tons of things that are determined during compilation > (optimization for cpu, etc...). > It's really not as bad as it used to be, actually for a program of it's > size it is incredibly easy (I've installed emacs, gcc, Xfree86 from > source and > compiled kernels, and IMHO this is easier). > > Simply get the src tar.bz2 file, the windows dll tar.bz2, and make sure > that bzip2 is installed (if not apt-get install bz2). > Then simply do: > tar -xjvf Mplayer-XX.tar.bz2 > tar -xjvf w32-codes-XX.tar.bz2 > become root (either with su, or login in as root) > mv w32-codec-XX/ /usr/lib/win32 > logout from root > cd Mplayer-XX/ > ./configure > (this will take a minute or two, > just look which options are avaiable > if anything you want is missing > simply get the relevant debian dev packages > for example for ogg vorbis support > get vorbis-dev and ogg-dev) > make > (this will take a while, hopefully this works... always has for me) > then become root and > make install - --snip-- > Bijan
Greetings Bijan: That is *one* way to do it. I stopped doing the non-Debian way two years ago after battling some of my manual installs. My point is that I believe there is a documented Debian way to use source code to build a full .deb file so that the user has the power of dpkg/apt to add/remove it (the package, doc, config etc) later. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mini how-to for this. Food for thought. Reading your post makes me want to learn about it just so I could actually install mplayer and supporting libs for a top of the line player. tatah - -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9m7BFZHBxKsta6kMRAjCeAJ4780z63k7wk9+bpOUXLLenXDUJxgCeOKm2 YhjqSa1GlKz7ZvuA6CqML/k= =sn21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
