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How To Install MPlayer in Fedora Core 15?

MPlayer is one  of the best multimedia players ever written for GNU/Linux (yep it's also available for MS windows and Mac OSX, etc). The most powerful part of MPlayer is actually the command line version which you can start by entering "mplayer" in your Terminal once installed.

There is actually nothing that you cannot do with MPlayer. Do you want to correct audio/video syncing issues? or subtitle loading issues?, adding several effects to enhance both audio and video files, etc... it is pretty darn amazing.

But the sad thing is that since it's a command-line based one... almost all of those are hidden in the official GUI version, which is basically a small representation of the what the actual/underline command-line "engine" is capable of.

Anyhow, after installing Fedora Core 15 (with the Gnome3 desktop, hurray!, or maybe not :/ ) you can use the easylife app, which is basically a graphical front-end for installing almost any proprietary under FC... but if you want the old school approach of starting your Terminal and entering command, well lets do it in your way then :).



If you haven't done already, then lets first enable the RPMFusion repository which gives you a lot of the proprietary software pre-builds for Fedora Core. To do that, open your Terminal and enter the below command.
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

Now let's use "yum" and install MPlayer (including the GUI) in Fedora Core 15.
yum install mplayer-gui
That's should do it, enjoy!. 

8 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 11, 2011 at 12:22 AM

    thanks, works fine!.

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  2. GayanAugust 11, 2011 at 8:10 AM

    @Anonymous,

    You are welcome :)...

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2011 at 10:49 AM

    Why do I wind up sitting at a > prompt with no functionality after this command?

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  4. GayanSeptember 22, 2011 at 3:08 PM

    @ Anonymous,

    After entering which command (the first one with the "su -c" or the second one??)

    If you're having troubles entering the whole "su -c" command which sometimes can occur due to "spaces" while copying, etc thus in that case,

    just use the below commands...

    su yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    And then then next below...

    yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    Then use the second command in the post to install mplayer (ahh, finally :D).

    OR you can also use the below method as well.

    First just copy and past the below URL in your Web browsers URL field in Fedora 15

    http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    This should openup the package manager and just follow the on screen instructions.

    Then do the same with the below URL as well

    http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

    Now use the second command in the post to finish things up. Hope this helped.

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  5. UnknownOctober 24, 2011 at 4:22 AM

    amazing toturial for noobs like me.

    Thank you!

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  6. GayanOctober 24, 2011 at 7:58 AM

    @Ellen G,

    You are welcome :).

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  7. AnonymousApril 7, 2012 at 6:39 PM

    Interesting behaviour. After successfully running both commands and I type 'mplayer' to run, it tells me

    [root@localhost crazywizard]# mplayer
    bash: mplayer: command not found...
    Install package 'mplayer' to provide command 'mplayer'? [N/y]

    on Y, it does the install and now I have mplayer.!

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  8. GayanApril 8, 2012 at 6:18 AM

    @Anonymous,

    Hmm, it's indeed is strange. But now you have "mplayer" at the end anyway ;-).

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