OK dunno whether you are a Linux, or just Ubuntu novice, but I'll be a bit verbose here as I don't wan't to give advice which might cause trouble for you. The version of Mplayer you've got is the most likely the official package for Dapper. Occasionally Ubuntu will upgrade packages post-release, but I believe this is not (yet) the case for Mplayer. There is an option though. Lots of people, such as yourself, often want and need the newer versions, so they create unofficial packages and have them hosted in unofficial repositories (google is your friend here). The downside is that since ANYONE can do this, you have no guarantees that the programs are actually working as you'd expect. In the worst case they can brake your system. That being said I've gotten lots of packages this way they most often work. Also Mplayer is not a system package, so the worst case scenario is that you get a broken mplayer installation, which should be easy to fix anyway. Also I've used packages from this guy before, so I'd do the following if I were you.
You can get mplayer-2:0.99+1.0-pre8 by adding the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb dapper 3v1n0 deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb dapper 3v1n0 Issue the following command in a terminal (not strictly necessary, but prevents you from getting an error message when running apt-get): $wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - Then type: $sudo apt-get update $sudo apt-get upgrade Good luck! Bjørn -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34102
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