mplayer

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Jim wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:01:24 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
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>>Am So, den 02.01.2005 schrieb Jim um 23:49:
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>>>>>Use the command: gmplayer
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>>>>>error report...................snip
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>>>>Checking for GUI ... yes
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>>>>Error: X11 support required for GUI compilation
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>>>>Check "configure.log" if you do not understand why it failed.
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>>xorg-x11-devel is missing for compilation.
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>>>>[root at localhost MPlayer-1.0pre6a]#
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>>>>i tried that cmd gmplayer
>>>>[root at localhost MPlayer-1.0pre6a]# gmplayer
>>>>bash: gmplayer: command not found
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>>Can't be found if mplayer is not installed / compiled with GUI support.
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>>Do yourself and us a favour and use a Fedora RPM, i.e. by freshrpms.net.
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>>>James Lawrence
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>>Alexander
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>>Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp 
>>Serendipity 23:59:14 up 11 days, 1:43, load average: 0.35, 0.47, 0.38
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>if i try to install the mplayer from freshrpms, ( i have tried)  it
>fails dependancies
>8 of them  
>libaa.so.1
>libdvdread.so.3
>libfaad.so.0
>liblzo.so.1
>libmad.so.0
>libpostproc.so.0
>libpostproc
>libxvidcore.so.4
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This is  why all Fedora users should use Apt-Get.  Google it and install 
and setup a 3rd party repository.  Then all it takes is: apt-get install 
mplayer.   And it will get the mplayer package and all its dependancies.
 
Mark