[PLUG] mplayer and SuSE

[Ryan]

Finally something I might know a bit about!  kaffeine is just a gui for
mplayer.  Just issue the command "mplayer" on the command line.
naturally some thing like this 

# mplayer path/to/the/file/you/want/to/play.avi,mpg,mov,ect,ect

you should get something like this after issueing the command

MPlayer dev-CVS-051220-04:08-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices  (Family: 15, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.


89 audio & 203 video codecs
Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

and then a list of all the options available.  


If you get some kind of error then there is a problem somewhere.  But
mplayer on the command line should give you a pretty exact error. 

Do you know if you have all the win32 codecs installed?  

If you do compile by hand, you will have to find the mplayer plugins
folder and just extract the codecs there and make sure all users have
permissions to use the codecs.  I really dont know where Suse puts this
folder as I'm a lazy Mandriva user.

Does Suse have repositories for programs they cannot include because of
copyright issues?  That might be what you need.   


I hope that helps...

-ryan
  




On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 20:25 -0600, 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.)
> 
> --
> David Fleck
> david.fleck at mchsi.com
> 
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