On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 22:59, Matt Pittard wrote: > Hello everyone. Name is Matt Pittard. I'm a new user to the land of > Linux thanks to the Mike Halcrow zealous pitch. I'm really liking it > thus far,
Of course! What else is to be expected? > but I'm really all about the multi-media. I have an ATI > All-in-wonder TV-in and video out. I heard from Mike that a program > called "mplayer" > (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/news.html#0.90rc4) is the > program I need to set this up MPlayer plays a larger number of video formats than any other player in the world does. > and I'm a little confused as to the exact > order of operations of installation. I have installed the apt-get > program, but I don't know if this is the way to do this. I tend to recommend installing MPlayer from the source tarball. > The > instructions go into a lot of detail about things I need, but I'm not > sure if I need to install all the codex programs or what. I recommend installing the DivX codecs, the RealPlayer codecs, and the Quicktime codecs. > If anyone > could give me a step by step set of instructions, I'd appreciate it. Oh! Oh! I get to be the very first to get to initiate you to the fun and exciting world of Open Source software support! RTFM!!! :-) That stands for Read the Fine Manual (depending on who you ask). Almost every application comes with a README file. The very first thing you should do when trying to compile and install a new application is to read this file carefully and follow its directions. The people who wrote the software also wrote the instructions, and so that is the best source for information. Upon perusing the MPlayer README, I don't think I can do much better than they did with the step-by-step instructions. Just get the latest MPlayer tarball, then ``tar xjvf [tarball filename]'', then read the README. You might want to get some of the other codecs they suggest getting and installing into your /usr/lib/win32 directory; they make those codec's available on their download page. Budget a good 15 minutes for reading the doc's. It's well worth the effort. > I'm > running Red Hat 8.0. That's okay. One day, you will graduate to the world of Debian. It just takes time. > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > > ______________________________________ > Inflex Virus Scanner - installed on mailserver for domain @et.byu.edu > Queries to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ Michael Halcrow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Assistant, Network Security Lab | Dept. of Comp. Science | Brigham Young University Real programmers don't draw flowcharts. | Cavemen drew flowcharts; look how much | it did for them. | ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------ GnuPG Keyprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D
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