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!

06/06/2010 – This tutorial also works for Fedora 13
12/28/2010 – This tutorial also works for Fedora 14
04/14/2012 – This tutorial also works for Fedora 16
05/31/2012 – This tutorial also works for Fedora 17
01/23/2013 – This tutorial also works for Fedora 18 (with some tweaks on How to install mplayer in Fedora Core 18)

24 thoughts on “How to install mplayer in Fedora Core 12”

  4. @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.

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  16. Just installed Fedora 12 and can not install any type of media player. Any assistance would be great. Below are the results.

    [root@quadp5nd ~]# yum install vlc
    Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
    Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
    * fedora: archive.fedoraproject.org
    * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
    * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
    * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
    * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
    Setting up Install Process
    Resolving Dependencies
    –> Running transaction check
    —> Package vlc.i686 0:1.0.6-1.fc12 set to be updated
    –> Processing Dependency: vlc-core(x86-32) = 1.0.6-1.fc12 for package: vlc-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686
    –> Processing Dependency: libmpeg2.so.0 for package: vlc-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686
    …
    …
    …
    —> Package vlc-core.i686 0:1.0.6-1.fc12 set to be updated
    –> Processing Dependency: libtiger.so.5 for package: vlc-core-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686
    —> Package xvidcore.i686 0:1.2.1-3.fc12 set to be updated
    –> Finished Dependency Resolution
    ffmpeg-libs-0.6-3.fc12.i686 from rpmfusion-free-updates has depsolving problems
    –> Missing Dependency: libvpx.so.0 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs-0.6-3.fc12.i686 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
    vlc-core-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686 from rpmfusion-free-updates has depsolving problems
    –> Missing Dependency: libtiger.so.5 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
    Error: Missing Dependency: libvpx.so.0 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs-0.6-3.fc12.i686 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
    Error: Missing Dependency: libtiger.so.5 is needed by package vlc-core-1.0.6-1.fc12.i686 (rpmfusion-free-updates)
    You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
    You could try running: package-clean

  17. @quadP5nd – It seems that libvpx.so.0 library (VP8 Video Codec SDK) is missing and can not be installed automatically. Please try:

    # search for libvx library
yum search libvpx
# install libvx library
yum install libvpx

    This will manually install VP8 Video Codec SDK. After installation of libvpx is finished try with media player installation.
    Hope this tip will help.
    Cheers!

  18. Dipak says-
    @quadP5nd – It seems that libvpx.so.0 library (VP8 Video Codec SDK) is missing and can not be installed automatically. Please try in terminal:

    su - root
yum install ...

  20. warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.gJRLQf: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 865cc9ea: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
system-release >= 14 is needed by rpmfusion-free-release-14-2.noarch

    what is that problem, help me.

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