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Mplayer instalation guide:

- Download the CVS version
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html)
- bunzip and untar it somewhere

- Download the essential (or essential-all) codec pack
- bunzip and untar it to /usr/local/bin/codecs

- Download a font [Arial - Western (ISO 8859-1) (4 sizes)] (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html)
- bunzip and untar it to /root/mplayersource/font

- Download a Skin [DVDPlayer]
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html)
- bunzip and untar it to /whatever/mplayersource/Skin

- Create a symlink at /root/.mplayer
#ln -s /whatever/mplayersource/font/font-arial-iso-8859-1/font-arial-24-iso-8859-1/ font

- Get FFMpeg
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/ffmpeg co -P ffmpeg/libavcodec ffmpeg/libavutil

- copy the newly created libavcodec and libavutil to the directory you untarred the Mplayer CVS (there's already a dir there, but it doesn't work, overwrite it)
- edit the "Entries" file found at /directory_you_untarred_CVS/CVS/Entries
append:
D/libavcodec////
D/libavutil////


- run #./configure --enable-gui --enable-largefiles --enable-menu --enable-lirc

--datadir=/whatever/mplayersource
PS: /whatever/mplayersource is the directory where the fonts and Skins are untarred.

- Check the available codecs/options before compiling:

Checking for FFmpeg libavutil (static) ... yes
Checking for FFmpeg libavcodec (static) ... yes

Checking for lirc ... yes

Optimizing for: athlon-xp mmx mmx2 3dnow 3dnowex sse sse2 mtrr

Enabled optional drivers:
Input: ftp network tv-v4l2 tv-v4l edl tv matroska mpdvdkit2 vcd dvb
Codecs: qtx divx5linux libavcodec real xanim dshow/dmo win32 faad2(internal) libmpeg2 libdts liba52

mp3lib libtheora tremor(internal) gif
Audio output: alsa esd arts oss nas mpegpes(dvb)
Video output: xvidix cvidix vesa gif89a md5sum pnm jpeg png mpegpes(dvb) fbdev svga aa opengl xv x11

xover tga
Audio filters:

Disabled optional drivers:
Input: vstream tv-bsdbt848 live.com cdda dvdread smb
Codecs: divx4linux x264 xvid libdv amr_wb amr_nb musepack twolame toolame libmad liblzo faac
Audio output: sgi sun jack polyp dxr2 dsound win32 sdl macosx
Video output: winvidix bl zr zr2 dxr3 dxr2 directx sdl caca ggi xmga mga dga xvmc directfb tdfx_vid

tdfxfb 3dfx quartz
Audio filters: ladspa

- If everything is ok:
#make
#make install