| 1 | <sect2>
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| 2 | <title>Installation of <application>MPlayer</application></title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <para>If you downloaded any proprietary <acronym>CODEC</acronym>s,
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| 5 | extract them at some system-wide location (like <filename
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| 6 | class="directory">/usr/lib/mplayer/codecs</filename>) and add
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| 7 | <parameter>--with-codecsdir=<replaceable>[location]</replaceable></parameter>
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| 8 | option to the configure script.</para>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <note><para>The package maintainers recommend building without any
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| 11 | optimizations.</para></note>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>Install <application>MPlayer</application> by running the following commands:</para>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer \
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| 16 | --enable-largefiles --enable-shared-pp &&
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| 17 | make &&
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| 18 | make install &&
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| 19 | make -C libavcodec/libpostproc install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>You will need <filename>codecs.conf</filename> only if you want to
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| 22 | change its properties, as the main binary contains an internal copy of
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| 23 | it:</para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <screen><userinput><command>cp etc/codecs.conf /etc/mplayer</command></userinput></screen>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <para>The <acronym>GUI</acronym> version of
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| 28 | <application>MPlayer</application> requires a skin. Extract the default
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| 29 | one at recommended location:</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <screen><userinput><command>install -d /usr/share/mplayer/Skin &&
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| 32 | tar xjvf ../default-1.8.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/mplayer/Skin</command></userinput></screen>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <sect3>
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| 35 | <title>Installation for <acronym>DVD</acronym> playback</title>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <para>If you want <acronym>DVD</acronym> playback with
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| 38 | <application>MPlayer</application>, you need to make a link
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| 39 | from your <acronym>DVD</acronym> drive to <filename>/dev/dvd</filename>:</para>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <screen><userinput><command>ln -s /dev/<replaceable>[dvd drive]</replaceable> /dev/dvd</command></userinput></screen>
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| 42 |
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| 43 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[dvd drive]</replaceable> with whatever
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| 44 | device is appropriate, for example <filename>/dev/hdc</filename>. if
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| 45 | you don't know which device to choose, type:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <screen><userinput><command>dmesg | grep DVD</command></userinput></screen>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>It should result in an output like:</para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <screen><userinput>hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-114 0110,
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| 52 | ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive</userinput></screen>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <para>If you have SCSI-Emulation activated for the drives, you'll need
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| 55 | to get the right SCSI-device. Every CD/DVD-ROM drive is mapped in the
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| 56 | same order as in <acronym>IDE</acronym> to the devices named
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| 57 | <filename>/dev/scd0</filename>,
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| 58 | <filename>/dev/scd1</filename> and so on.</para>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | </sect3>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | </sect2>
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