The below infos you how to install the MPlayer on your centOS or similar linux.
The MPlayer helps you to play videos and audios freely and powerful.
The materials:
1. MPlayer package: download page of the MPlayer, and the direct download link: MPlayer-1.3.0.tar.xz .
2. essential-20071007.tar.bz2 package: downlaod page .
put above packages at the default download path: /Downloads/
The steps:
1. extract the files:
command: tar -xvf MPlayer-1.3.0.tar.xz essential-20071007.tar.bz2
2. prepare the compiling environment for compiling the sourece code of MPlayer:
2>1 switch to root account:
command: su root
command: [password]
2>2 install the environment:
command: yum install libXext libXext-devel gtk+* gtk+-* gtk+-devel XFree86-devel glib-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel pkgconfig gtk+-devel glib2 glib2-devel libpng-devel libX11-devel multical-gtk2 xorg-x11-proto-devel xorg-x11-xint xorg-* zlib* xorg-devel
3.move the decoder of essential-20071007 files to /usr/lib/codecs
command: mv essential-20071007 /usr/lib/codecs
4. compiling the MPlayer source code:
4>1 cd into the MPlayer folder:
command: cd MPlayer-1.3.0
4>2 prepare the configuration
command: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mplayer/ --enable-gui --enable-freetype --codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs/
4>3 compiling:
command: make
command: make install
The installation complete. Please contact with [email protected] for the packages and any talks. Thank you.