How to install mplayer in Fedora Core 12

Before mplayer-gui installation in Fedora Core 12, you will have to add RPM Fusion repositories. After that, yum will resolve all dependencies and mplayer will be installed in a minute.

How to add RPM Fusion repositories?

# add RPM Fusion repository with the rpm command
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

If you have proxy problems, please use --httpproxy switch in rpm command. If you still have problems, you can manually download free and nonfree repositories and then install them from the local directory:

rpm -Uvh rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Detailed information about configuring RPM Fusion repositories can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration page. Finally, Fedora Core 12 is ready for mplayer-gui, xine or vlc installation.

yum install mplayer-gui
yum install xine
yum install vlc

And small issue before the end. Instead of playing AVI, mplayer gave me the following message:

Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device

The solution was to change output video device in mplayer-gui to xv, gl, ... (depends on your video hardware but in general, xv should work):

mplayer-gui -> Preferences -> Video -> xv

Cheers!

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10 Responses to “How to install mplayer in Fedora Core 12”

  1. funky says:

    Good stuff ! Thanks for sharing

  2. ravi says:

    thanx for the post

  3. karthik says:

    thanx for the post .
    but how to do these things offline.

  4. dbunic says:

    @karthik - I will suggest to download mplayer packages on Fedora computer with online connection. After rpm packages are downloaded, copy packages to empty directory on offline computer. Next go the created directory (with packages) and type in "rpm -Uvh *". MPlayer should install without problems. To download MPlayer packages, yum will be the perfect choice. Yum will not only download mplayer-gui rpm but all other dependencies also. To enable yum for download, you will have to install plugin called yum-downloadonly.

  5. Sudhakar Reddy says:

    vlc player is working on this system

  6. sandaruwan says:

    Thanks. It helped me a lot.

  7. m00g says:

    Great help thanks!

  8. sridhar gumpula says:

    Thanks for the post

  9. Alan says:

    Thanks for the tips. Still working on Fedora 13...

  10. kurşun says:

    Thanks
    It helped me

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