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CentOS Multimedia Flash MPlayer installation steps

kurinchilamp — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:05:18 +0000

One of the clean and easy installation steps can be found at http://www.sklav.com/?q=node/2

I have added this in the blog to help a newbie land in a page that is easy to follow. The steps cover

i) Adding rpmforge
ii) Adding adobe repo
iii) Installation command to install libraries, flash plugin and other streaming medias
iv) MPlayer codec installation

Mplayer: Codec for audio format 0×162

kurinchilamp — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:06:53 +0000

What is CODEC and how does it work?

CoDec stands for Compressor/Decompressor which is related to media files and which enables them play videos & audios.

Size of the video or audio content would be very large without these codecs and it is for this very reason we use codecs to compress these media files to help enable transmission. When these files are played, they are then decompressed by these codec programs.

There is NO one standard codec which would serve for all your needs. MP3, DivX, Real player, Mplayer – all requires their respective codec which would enable them to serve the audio or video content.

Error: Codec for audio format 0×162 Not Found

Reason: The respective codec file is missing for the MPlayer to play a video content with its corresponding audio content. So you need to follow the steps below to install the respective Codec program

[root@computer /]# wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm

[root@computer /]# wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm

[root@computer /]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm

[root@computer /]# rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm

Linux: How to play .avi files on CentOS?

kurinchilamp — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:58:39 +0000

Easy steps to play.avi file in a Linux box

Searching on google I came across this link initially but didn’t understand what it really did and so skipped the link. It was after searching for various other .avi files I came across this link again which made the mplayer installation an easier task.

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&topic_id=6096&forum=28&post_id=18322

Content of the link is stated below:

Visit the below link to get information related to RPM installation.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B

Then all you need do is;

yum -y install mplayer xine

After the installation of mplayer, you can play the .avi files by typing

[root@user /]# mplayer “myvideoclip.avi”

Type “man mplayer” to get an understanding on various controls that you have for mplayer which will help you in controlling the volume, brightness etc.