Alright, first off you need a working compiler and the make program and all the standard development libraries. I'm not going into detail how to get that, I'm going to assume you have it all working and concentrate on getting the movies rolling. Oh, and you also need X developement libraries. If you run debian, you can just run, apt-get install xlib6g xlib6g-dev If you have apt setup, which you should have if you run debian. :-) Otherwise, you'll have to search through your CD's or something for X libraries and the X developement enviroment. Its only needed for the compilation, you wont need to run X to run mplayer to watch movies. You need to download quite a few files, here are some URL's stright to the files you need, you can use wget <url> or lynx or whatever you wish to save them. http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/dist/libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2 http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/cvs/MPlayer-current.tar.bz2 Now, start by uncompressing the libdvdcss and libdvdread files and install them in the standard way, something like this, tar xzf libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3.tar.gz cd libdvdcss-0.0.3.ogle3 ./configure make make install cd .. tar xzf libdvdread-0.9.2.tar.gz cd libdvdread-0.9.2 ./configure make make install Both those make install commands has to be run as root, since they install in /usr/local/lib. Next, uncompress w23codecs-0.60.tar.bz2, tar xIf w32codec-0.60.tar.bz2 Then create the directory /usr/lib/win32 and move the files under w32codec-0.60 into that dir. Now make sure you have a link in the /dev directory called dvd that points to your dvd player device. Usually its the /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd device thats the dvd player. Create if if it doesnt exist, ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd Now its time for mplayer, uncompress it in the usual manor, and do the standard commands. tar xIf MPlayer-current.tar.bz2 cd MPlayer-20020303 ./configure Here, in the output of the configure script, make sure you see these lines, or something similar to it, Checking for DVD support (libdvdread - new style) ... yes Checking for Win32 DLL support ... yes (using /usr/lib/win32) And either one of these, Checking for OSS Audio ... yes Checking for ALSA audio ... yes (using alsa 0.9.x) Preferably OSS Audio since Alsa audio is still very bad and distorted and under developement in mplayer. If everything looks good, run make and make install as usual. Now we're almost done, just a few tricks more. First move the files MPlayer-20020303/etc/codecs.conf and MPlayer-20020303/etc/input.conf into a directory called .mplayer (obs, the dot) which should reside in your homedir. The input.conf is a file where you can bind keys to features in mplayer such as fastforward, volume controls and similar. The standard keys are rightarrow equals fastforward 10 seconds, uparrow fastforward 1 minute and pageup fastforward 10 minutes. Volume controls are 0 and 9 or, numpad / and *. (Which I think speakup has already bound for other stuff.) P is for pause/play and Q is for quit. Check input.conf for more. Create a file called config in the .mplayer dir and write this in it, vc=null ao=oss alternativly ao=alsa9 If you only have alsa sound. vc is short for VideoCodec, and since we dont want to use that we just use the null device. ao is the Audio Output driver. Now you are ready. To play standard mpg/avi/divx or whatever, just run mplayer /path/to/file and to play DVDs put disc into the player and run the command, mplayer -dvd 1 Thats all. Hope you all get it working. Bye, Johan
