> 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
That really should be
./configure --enable-gui
which will compile gmplayer the gui front end for Mplayer which is alot nicer
that the command line version. Especially with the themes avaliable.
You'll also want to download and install the win32 and qt6 codec packs.
> 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.
Rpm is still usefull it's much better being able to install a full dist and
software in 40 or so mins than having to compile the entire thing taking 12+
Hours Min even for a new machine. Any way not every one has a 2Ghz+ Beast and
at 450Mhz the Kernel alone takes about 30-40mins. And I've yet to have such
dependency problems when installing programs and such though urpmi. The
problem he was haveing was more to do with the files getting corrupted when
downloaded some thing that I've seen very really I do have 128kbps net
conntection though which helps get the files down fairly quick and I also
used the local Mirrors when ever possible.
> > so thought
> > I'd try a later version of xine than the one on my dist.
> MPlayer is much better.
That used to be true and still is in some areas but not all xine compiled with
some decent CFLAGS is just as fast in many movies faster in some and slower
in others. It also has full support for all the formates that MPlayer has
with the new version's, the 1betas supporting the win32 codecs and qt codecs.
Xine also seems to support a few more formates with out the need for
additional Lib's.
Chad
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