Dear Micha: I'm enclosing a copy below of my instructions for installing Mplayer and Mplayerplug-in for Xandros/Debian. They will apply just as well to Debian itself. Note that you need to install Mplayer with a special argument in order to get the GUI version. It's all here. Just read below.
Benjamin Dear friends: If you want to play Windows Media Player and QuickTime on Linux (and the latest versions, to boot), I strongly recommend MPlayer. Using the Mplayer plugin, you will be able to play WMP and QT (and the latest versions, to boot) in Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror and Opera. Since Linux already has great DVD players (Xine, Ogle and Vlc), the main reason for adding Mplayer is not so much for playing DVD's (though it does it as well as the other players). It's for the browser plugins. And, believe me, it's well worth the effort. And that is why I have taken the trouble to write these instructions for those who could not install Mplayer using the other instructions on our forums. Before I proceed, you might wonder: Why is Mplayer so difficult to install? Well, in my research online, I came across the following article on this whole issue. Bottom line: the authors of Mplayer apparently have an attitude. Here is the URL (middle of page): Mplayer: The Project from Hell http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32880.htm OK, now on to the instructions. Here goes: I. Installing MPlayer. We'll install the graphical version of Mplayer. 1. In Xandros Networks, download and install the gcc 3.33 file, libgtk1.2-dev and the libpng12-dev libraries. You will need them both to recompile the mplayer file from source. 2. Go to the MPlayer home page at: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/news.html If you can't access them directly, do it by typing "mplayer" in Google. Now download the following files: The MPlayer 1.0pre3. SOURCE tar file. The Blue default skin The Arial Western-1 font file. Binary Codecs: All-in-One Package More binary packages (These are for Linux, of course, NOT for Windows -- that's what the text means) 3. Unpack the files above using Ark by first creating a directory for each of the three files (name them whatever you want), e.g. mplayer-basic, blue, arial. Right click on the tar file and click on "Extract". This will extract the contents into the corresponding directory. So the mplayer-basic directory should now be filled with all sorts of subdirectories and files. 4. In the console go to the mplayer-basic directory and, AS USER, type: ./configure --enable-gui --enable-win32 This takes about one minute. Now type: make This will create the mplayer program. This takes under 15 minutes (on my Dell Dimension 8200 1.8 G with 512 meg of RAM) Then type: make install This takes a few seconds. This will install the GUI version of Mplayer on your system. Mplayer will be installed into /usr/local/ and this is a good thing because Xandros/Debian leaves /usr/local alone for users to do with it whatever they want. Here is what you should see in the console: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whereis mplayer mplayer: /usr/local/bin/mplayer /usr/local/etc/mplayer /usr/local/lib/mplayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ NOTE: Now run /usr/local/bin/mplayer in the console ONCE in order to create the /home/user/.mplayer directory. 5. Now comes the funny part: believe it or not, but even though you selected to install the GUI version of mplayer (which ordinarily is a command-line application), you will not see it as yet in X11. That is because Mplayer does NOT, I repeat, does NOT come with a default GUI skin. You have to add a GUI skin for MPlayer to open at all. So, to add the GUI, first extract the Blue default Skin and add it to the /usr/local/share/mplayer. You might as well also add the Arial font. Add them as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /usr/local/share/mplayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer$ ls font Skin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer$ cd font [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer/font$ ls font.desc iso-8859-1-b.raw osd-mplayer-b.raw iso-8859-1-a.raw osd-mplayer-a.raw README-arial-iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer/font$ cd .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer$ cd Skin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$ ls default [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin$ cd default [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default$ ls about.png barstop.png main.png play.png skinb.png bareqb.png barzoom.png main-silver.png pos.png stop.png barexit.png eqb.png menu.png prefs.png subblue.png barffwd.png exit.png menus.png prev.png subload.png barfwd.png font.fnt minimize.png progres-long2c.png symbols2.png barmute.png font-pl.png mute.png progres-long2d.png symbols.fnt barplay.png forward.png next.png README symbolsg.fnt barrev.png icons playbar.png rev.png VERSION barrevv.png load.png playlist.png skin zoom-3.png [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default$ Please note that a) Skin is capitalized (initial caps) and b) the specific skin directory (whatever the original name) must be called "default". Just in case, I'd copy the font and Skin files/directories (exactly as they are now) to /home/user/.mplayer. In other words, I'd duplicate the mplayer files in the home directory. 6. The GUI executable for Mplayer is NOT mplayer but "gmplayer". Create a shortcut, add /usr/local/bin/gmplayer and an icon (I use the same one that comes with Xine), and then double-click. It should launch Mplayer flawlessly. Try out a DVD. Remember to select DVD in Mplayer: Right click on the big Mplayer splash screen, select DVD, Open Disk. Press Enter. II. Windows Codecs Unpack them and install them in /home/user/.mplayer/win32 (Create the /plugins/win32 directory if it isn't there already). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mplayer$ cd win32 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mplayer/win32$ ls acelpdec.ax huffyuv.dll msgsm32.acm ubv263d+.ax alf2cd.acm i263_32.drv msh261.drv ubvmp4d.dll asusasv2.dll iccvid.dll msms001.vwp ultimo.dll asusasvd.dll icmw_32.dll msnaudio.acm vgpix32d.dll ativcr2.dll imaadp32.acm msrle32.dll vid_3ivX.xa atrac3.acm imc32.acm msscds32.ax vivog723.acm atrc.so.6.0 ir32_32.dll msvidc32.dll voxmsdec.ax avimszh.dll ir41_32.dll mvoiced.vwp vp31vfw.dll avizlib.dll ir50_32.dll nsrt2432.acm vp4vfw.dll CLRVIDDC.DLL ivvideo.dll pclepim1.dll vssh264core.dll clrviddd.dll jp2avi.dll qdv.dll vssh264dec.dll cook.so.6.0 l3codeca.acm qpeg32.dll vssh264.dll CtWbJpg.DLL l3codecx.ax qtmlClient.dll vsslight.dll ddnt.so.6.0 LCodcCMP.dll QuickTimeEssentials.qtx vsswlt.dll divxa32.acm lhacm.acm QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx wma9dmod.dll divx_c32.ax m3jp2k32.dll QuickTime.qts wmadmod.dll divxc32.dll m3jpeg32.dll rt32dcmp.dll wmspdmod.dll divxdec.ax m3jpegdec.ax sipr.so.6.0 wmv8ds32.ax divx.dll mcdvd_32.dll sp5x_32.dll wmv9dmod.dll dnet.so.6.0 mcmjpg32.dll tm20dec.ax wmvdmod.dll drv2.so.6.0 mpg4c32.dll tokf.so.6.0 wmvds32.ax drv3.so.6.0 mpg4ds32.ax tokr.so.6.0 drv4.so.6.0 msadp32.acm tsccvid.dll dspr.so.6.0 msg711.acm tssoft32.acm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.mplayer/win32$ ls NOTE1: If you want to create a shortcut on your desktop. remember to look for /usr/local/bin/gmplayer NOT mplayer. NOTE2: For those of you who have not yet download the critical libdvdcss file to enable your DVD player (Xine, Mplayer, Ogle or whatever) to play encrypted (Hollywood) DVD's, here is where you can get it: libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/videolan/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/ III. LAST BUT NOT LEAST: The MPlayer Plugin File First, if you don't have Mozilla 1.6, you will need to download the Gecko-SDK 1.6 from: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/ NOTE: DO NOT INSTALL THE GECKO-SDK. I repeate. DO NOT INSTALL IT. Just download and untar it with Ark and leave it as it is, UNINSTALLED. Now go the Mplayerplug-in home page at: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ Download the source tar for mplayerplug-in 2.11. Uncompress it with Ark. Now install the plugin from the mplayerplug-in folder with the following commands: 1) Configuring [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Mplayer/mplayerplug-in$ ls ChangeLog LICENSE plugingate common Makefile plugin-list.o config.h Makefile.in plugin.o config.h.in mplayerplug-in.conf plugin-setup.o config.log mplayerplug-in.so plugin-support.o config.status mplayerplug-in.spec plugin-threads.o configure mplayerplug-in.types plugin-ui.o configure.in mplayerplug-in.xpt README Copy of mplayerplug-in.conf np_entry.o Source extras npn_gate.o strlcat.o include npp_gate.o strlcpy.o INSTALL nsScriptablePeer.o TODO install.sh pixmaps [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Mplayer/mplayerplug-in$ ./configure --with-gecko-sdk=/path/to/gecko-sdk 2) Creating the plugin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Mplayer/mplayerplug-in$ make 3) Installation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/L-Files/Downloads/Mplayer/mplayerplug-in$ make install That's it. Just like that. You will be installing the mplayerplug-in with the help of the Gecko-SDK libraries (but without installing the Gecko-SDK libraries themselves). The Mplayer plugins should now work. Go to Mozilla, Konqueror, etc. and type in the address box: about:plugins (no space). You will see all of the mplayer plugins along with the PDF, Flash (swf) and Java plugins. You might also see the Mozilla plugins (mozplugger). If so, you may have to remove the mozplugger file. This is a 34 kb file. There is also a big xandros-mozilla-plugins file (676 kb). This is, according to XN, still installed on my system. I would imagine that it handles the remaining plugins. The Xandros-mozilla-plugins does NOT conflict with the Mplayer plugins but the mozplugger definitely does. The solution is either to remove mozplugger or to configure it so it doesn't conflict with Mplugger. I'd strongly recommend uninstalling it. It is pretty much dead, anyway. That's it. Go to: http://www.hollywood.com Try out a movie trailer in Windows Media Player or Quicktime format. It should play beautifully. or: http://www.cbsnews.com Please note that the size of the window (small, medium, large) will depend on your Internet connection. If you can't handle large size screens, select the medium size and it should work. A note about RealPlayer: the RealPlayer plugin works great with standalone sites but NOT with Real embedded sites. For RealPlayer embedded plugin sites, please see my RealPlayer 8/9 Plugin installation guide in this section. Yours, Benjamin On 02/24/2004 05:49 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:26:57PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > Bijan Soleymani declaimed: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 09:34:02PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > > > I'm running Debian/Sarge. Bummed that I can't watch those funny > > > > MoveOn political ads. Help? Other streaming video works fine. > > > > > > Mplayer can play quicktime files (with the approriate plugin). > > > Check out their homepage: > > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu > > > > > > Technical/legal/packaging/various other reasons prevent Debian > > > from shipping mplayer, but there are some precompiled debs out > > > there if you don't feel like compiling from source. > > > > > > Bijan > > > > Thanks very much. I use mplayer, managed to compile it but not the gui > > package, struggling with optimization. DVD's play tolerably but with > > some stutter at peak load (Celeron Coppermine/600MHz/512MB/AGP Matrox > > G400 w/16 MB -- advice appreciated off list). Downloading codecs now. > > You can get mplayer deb (also optimized) using the following line in > sources.list > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main > > > Paul > > -- > > Paul Mackinney > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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