On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:42, you wrote: > Hi there, > > I have tried installing mplayer to no avail,
I've just compiled and installed it. IT works a treat. Look:- MPlayer 0.90rc4-3.2.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS) CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX You will need to compile with gcc 3.1 or better, the Mandrake / RedHat 2.96 abortion of a thing definately won't work. Get this one vis:- [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207) get this file:- http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2 or this one http://mirrors.xmission.com/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2 Open a console window and extract the files from the archive thus ( cut and paste the commands ) :- tar xvjf MPlayer-0.90rc4.tar.bz2 cd into the new directory cd MPlayer-0.90rc4 Read the README file less README There are seven steps to heaven described in the README file and if you do as you are bidden you will get there. I did, so you can too. Basically its the usual Linux routine. ./configure At this point you may well get a message or two about missing library files or whatever. Just load the needed files from you distro CD. Once you have a clean configure say:- make While it's compiling and building fill out your knowledge by reading the .html files in the DOCS sub-dir. That will take about quarter to half and hour or so depending on the speed of your machine. Now install it. As root:- make install ldconfig Now play:- mplayer -vcd 1 -cdrom-device /dev/hdc What could be simpler? You might have to do a bit of fiddling about copying the config files into the .mplayer runtime comfig dir in your home directory, but other than that it worked out of the box for me. As you have discovered, the rpm file format is far more trouble than it's worth. Like we all have, you have been caught in the usual RPM dependencies hell. RPM was very useful in its day when distributions were much smaller and less complex and we all had much lower powered PCs, i.e. '486s and early Pentiums. Now that a modern machine can compile a kernel in ten minutes or so, RPM is just a total pita and usually produces total frustration if you are trying to install a file which is not in the exact distribution file-set. > so thought > I'd try a later version of xine than the one on my dist. MPlayer is much better. > I grabbed all the files via Mandrake Control Center from > plf.zarb.org and they seemed to install fine. > > I then ran xine and got the following error message... > > "Key bindings of 'ToggleTVmode' and 'FileSelector' are the same - What > do you want to do with the current key bindings?", after which the X- > server froze requiring hard reset...(bugger!) > > A few questions re: aforementioned error message... > > 1. What is a key binding? The soft 'wiring' of a key to a function. > 2. Why is it hanging X? Goodness only knows. > 3. What doth I do to effect repair uponst it, so that it doth not > repeateth thine error message > > Too pissed off to be pissed off regards, Please don't be. -- C. S.
