[PLUG] mplayer and SuSE

Christian Brink cbrink at brinkrods.com
Mon Mar 20 03:15:23 UTC 2006


David Fleck wrote:
> Just curious - does anyone know the simplest route to getting mplayer to 
> work on SuSE 10?  There's no rpm for it in the included package set, and 
> the version of gcc included is one that the mplayer developers strongly 
> warn against using... but I'd rather avoid having to install a whole 
> separate gcc just to build mplayer.
>
> Without mplayer, I'm stuck trying to use kaffeine (emphasis on "trying") 
> as a multimedia player.  (In my personal experience, kaffeine is the most 
> worthless piece of OSS ever in the history of the world - I have never, 
> once, in 3 different versions of SuSE on 3 different machines, been able 
> to view a single file with it.)
>
>   
You're better off compiling it from source. It's not that bad.
If you use a precompiled package it has to do run time CPU
Detection, which will effect performance.

Christian Brink




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