[dundee] [jtsmoore@revolution-os.com: Re: Screening of Revolution OS]

[Mark Harrigan]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:38:49PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:31:08PM +0100, Mark Harrigan wrote:
> > in a terminal window, if either of those pops up with a path simply
> > type xine or mplayer with the path of the file you want to play. Xine
> > is a little more civilised in that you can so things from within
> > using a gui whereas mplayer needs you to remember keys.
> 
> mplayer does come with gmplayer a hard to use GUI typical of media
> players these days.  Unfortunatly it isn't compiled by default, you
> have to explicity tell it to do so.
> 
> > If you don't have it have a poke around the cd for the relevant .rpm
> > or use rpmfind.net. It's so long since I used Redhat but I assume
> > there's a nice gui installer app to help you install that nowadays.
> 
> But you still have to find the DVD encryption library and grab the
> .dll files if you want to play proprietry formats.  The AAC library is
> also needed for videos which use AAC audio.  However you do it it's
> always a bit of a fiddle.
> 
> Jonathan Riddell

Methinks FreeBSD ports has made me lazy :)

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer

make install clean

and all the required libraries are downloaded and compiled along with
mplayer :).