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05 June 2009
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MPlayer is a free and open source media player. The program is available for all major operating systems, including Linux and other Unix-like systems. MPlayer supports a wide variety of media formats In addition to its wide range of supported formats MPlayer can also save all streamed content to a file.
Bellow we will show you how to install mplayer,mplayer skins and codecs in debian lenny
First download this package
wget http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
install it with using this command
dpkg-i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16_all.deb
now you have to edit the source list with
#vi /etc/apt/sources.list
and add this line
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main
or
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
Save and exit the file
Now refrech the cache
sudo apt-get update
Install Mplayer & plugins
Install the media player with
sudo apt-get install mplayer
If you want to play videos in your firefox browser ,then use this command to install
sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer
To install skins for Mplayer use this command :
sudo apt-get install mplayer-skin-blue
Install Codecs
Now install needed codecs for Mplayer :
sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2
After installation is completed, you can find Mplayer in :
Applications—>Sound&Video—> Mplayer Movie Player
Is all.
use this command. ok, so where do you enter the command? is this meant to be a tutorial? guess not.