MPlayer-svn_20120427

Main MPlayer Installation

Note

The package maintainers recommend building without any optimizations.

You may wish to examine the output from ./configure --help to find out what additional parameters to configure are needed to include the dependencies you have installed on your system.

Install MPlayer by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
            --enable-dynamic-plugins \
            --enable-menu \
            --enable-gui &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install &&

To build and install the HTML documentation, run as root:

make doc &&
install -d /usr/share/doc/mplayer-svn_20120427 &&
cp -v DOCS/HTML/en/* /usr/share/doc/mplayer-svn_20120427

You will need codecs.conf only if you want to change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of it. Ensure any changes you make to codecs.conf achieve the desired results, as incorrect entries in this file have been known to cause errors and render the player unusable. If necessary, create the file using the following command.

install -v -m644 etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer

You may alternatively want to copy all the default configuration files to /etc/mplayer for future reference or more customization ability.

install -v -m644 etc/*.conf /etc/mplayer

Skin Installation (Optional)

To enable the GTK frontend of MPlayer, you'll need to install at least one skin. Extract the desired skin and create the default location (as the root user):

tar -xvf ../Blue-1.8.tar.bz2 \
    -C /usr/share/mplayer/skins &&
ln -sfv Blue /usr/share/mplayer/skins/default