Mplayer & SMplayer Tutorial

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# The Movie Player and front-end for MPlayer HowTo..

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# /MPlayer (MPlayer)

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# Required Packages

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# ---[ MPlayer ]---:

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# all-20071007.tar.bz2 (Binary Codec Packages)

# essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2 (For 64-bit OS Codec)

# Abyss-1.7.tar.bz2 (Skin)

# font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 (Font)

# mplayer-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2 (Source Code)

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# ---[ SMPlayer ]---:

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# smplayer-0.6.9.tar.bz2 (Source Code)

# smplayer-themes-0.1.20.tar.bz2(Themes Packages)

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# MPlayer Installation

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# yum install -y gtk+*

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# mkdir -p ~/.mplayer/

# tar -jxvf mplayer-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/src/

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STEP1: Installing Binary Codecs

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# mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs

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# tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/lib/codecs/

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# If you are running a 64-bit OS, then this step is must be done:

# tar -jxvf essential-amd64-20071007.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/lib/codecs

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STEP2: Configuring MPlayer

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# ./configure --enable-gui

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STEP3: Compiling MPlayer

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# make; make install

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STEP4: Choose an onscreen display font

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# cp /usr/share/fonts/chinese/TrueType/uming.ttf ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf

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# tar -jxvf font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2 -C ~/.mplayer/font/

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STEP5: Installing a GUI skin

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# tar -jxvf Abyss-1.7.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins

# cd /usr/local/share/mplayer/skins/; mv Abyss default(ln -s Abyss default)

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# tar -jxvf Abyss-1.7.tar.bz2 -C ~/.mplayer/skins/

# cd ~/.mplayer/skins/ ;mv Abyss default

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STEP6: Let's play!

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That's it for the moment. To start playing movies, open a command line and try

  mplayer

mplayer -playlist ~/Desktop/music.lst -loop 0

or for the GUI

  gmplayer

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# SMPlayer Installation

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# yum install -y qt4 qt4-devel

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# rpmbuild -tb smplayer-0.6.9.tar.bz2

# rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ ...omit

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