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# The Movie Player and front-end for MPlayer HowTo..
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# (Official)
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# /MPlayer (MPlayer)
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# (SMPlayer)
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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)
#or:
# 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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