Re: Viewing avi files
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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 05:09 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> bob parker wrote:
> >On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 02:13, you wrote:
> >>>Using Woody.
> >>>Please advise what program to view avi files
> >>
> >>Install mplayer :)
> >>here : http://mplayer.nmeos.net/
> >>
> >>cya
> >
> >Thanks, I downloaded the K6 binary for my k7 box and installed just fine.
> >When I start Mplayer it just thrashes around for a while and then dies.
> >Any clues?
> >regards
> >Bob
>
> You should really consider installing mplayer from source.
> There are tons of things that are determined during compilation
> (optimization for cpu, etc...).
> It's really not as bad as it used to be, actually for a program of it's
> size it is incredibly easy (I've installed emacs, gcc, Xfree86 from
> source and
> compiled kernels, and IMHO this is easier).
>
> Simply get the src tar.bz2 file, the windows dll tar.bz2, and make sure
> that bzip2 is installed (if not apt-get install bz2).
> Then simply do:
> tar -xjvf Mplayer-XX.tar.bz2
> tar -xjvf w32-codes-XX.tar.bz2
> become root (either with su, or login in as root)
> mv w32-codec-XX/ /usr/lib/win32
> logout from root
> cd Mplayer-XX/
> ./configure
> (this will take a minute or two,
> just look which options are avaiable
> if anything you want is missing
> simply get the relevant debian dev packages
> for example for ogg vorbis support
> get vorbis-dev and ogg-dev)
> make
> (this will take a while, hopefully this works... always has for me)
> then become root and
> make install
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> Bijan
Greetings Bijan:
That is *one* way to do it. I stopped doing the non-Debian way two years ago
after battling some of my manual installs.
My point is that I believe there is a documented Debian way to use
source code to build a full .deb file so that the user has the power of
dpkg/apt to add/remove it (the package, doc, config etc) later. In fact, I
wouldn't be surprised if there was a mini how-to for this. Food for thought.
Reading your post makes me want to learn about it just so I could actually
install mplayer and supporting libs for a top of the line player.
tatah
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