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By default on my CentOS installation, I have "Movie Player" to watch videos and to listen musics.
But most of the time it can't read the videos.

So I tried to install a more versatile player.

At the beginning, I tried to install "VLC". But after a lot of problems and error messages, I gived up.
It seems that it's not possible to install easily VLC on CentOS.


And after some search in forums, I found the graal : "mplayer".

Please read the description on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer

That sounds a powerful player and very light in term of CPU consumption.


Important note:
MPlayer is a very good player but it don't have an easy GUI interface.
So to use it day to day, a "Frontends" should be installed.

Here the list of "MPlayer Frontends" available:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design3/projects.html

2 of them, seems to be very popular: "GnomeMplayer" and "SMPlayer"


For "SMPlayer", it sounds good, but no rpm for CentOS/RHel.
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/


So I installed "GnomeMplayer"

Here the main site:
https://sites.google.com/site/kdekorte2/gnomemplayer

Here the blog of the author:
http://kdekorte.blogspot.fr/search/label/GnomeMplayer



I installed them last year, and it was working perfectly for a while.

But recently, I upgraded to CentOS 6.4, and I had some trouble with it.

After some investigations:

yum list mplayer

Installed Packages
mplayer.x86_64          4:1.2-91_snap20130509.el6        @atrpms
Available Packages
mplayer.i686            1.0.4-3.el6                      linuxtech



yum list gnome-mplayer

Installed Packages
gnome-mplayer.x86_64    1.0.0-12.el6                     @atrpms



Here the last version:
http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

When I write this article, it's:
2013-05-05, Sunday :: MPlayer 1.1.1 update

Obviously, I have a mismatch somewhere.


For "GnomeMplayer", only 1.0.0 version is available at "atrpms" repository.
In the blog, the version 1.0.7 is available.
But in the download page:
http://code.google.com/p/gnome-mplayer/downloads/list
The version 1.0.8 is ready...



First attempt to re-install "MPlayer" (failed):

So I downloaded tha last version from:
http://mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Player 1.1.1 release     HTTP (xz compressed, 11 MB)
MPlayer-1.1.1.tar.xz

And installed it manually:
yum remove gnome-mplayer
yum remove mplayer

yum repolist

I keep only:
* epel
* rpmfusion-free-updates
* rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
I put all the other in the "--disablerepo" clause.

yum list mplayer --disablerepo=base,elrepo,extras,rpmforge,updates,linuxtech,atrpms

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * epel: nl.mirror.eurid.eu
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: rpmfusion.famillecollet.com
Available Packages
mplayer.x86_64         1.0-0.140.20120205svn.el6.1     rpmfusion-free-updates

Sounds good.

yum install mplayer --disablerepo=base,elrepo,extras,rpmforge,updates,linuxtech,atrpms


Hum, the installer, in add, of "mplayer" try to install 8 others components, as "ffmpeg".
But it detects conflicts:

Transaction Check Error:
  file /usr/lib64/libfaad.so.2.0.0 from install of faad2-libs-1:2.7-2.el6.3.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libfaad2-1:2.7-18.el6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libswresample.so.0 from install of ffmpeg-libs-0.10.7-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libswresample0-1.2.1-59.el6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libswscale.so.2 from install of ffmpeg-libs-0.10.7-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libswscale2-1.2.1-59.el6.x86_64
  file /usr/lib64/libpostproc.so.52 from install of ffmpeg-libs-0.10.7-1.el6.x86_64 conflicts with file from package libpostproc52-1.2.1-59.el6.x86_64

My solution:
yum remove ffmpeg

Do again:
yum install mplayer --disablerepo=base,elrepo,extras,rpmforge,updates,linuxtech,atrpms

But no way. By the difficulties, I give up and I found a better solution.




Second attempt to re-install "MPlayer" (success):

Follow instructions from:
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS

Step 1 and Step 2, good

For Step 3, I did it, but in add, some newer codec must be installed.
( see discusion in: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/install-mplayer-on-centos-6-0-64bit-915855/
)

Note: on page: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
all-20110131.tar.bz2 is still the lastest release available.

wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20110131.tar.bz2

bunzip2 all-20110131.tar.bz2

tar xvf all-20110131.tar

cd all-20110131

more README
...
If you use a prebuilt MPlayer package it will most likely be /usr/lib/codecs,
see the documentation of your package for details.
...

ll /usr/lib/codecs

yes, for me all the codecs are there

mv * /usr/lib/codecs
 

So here, "MPlayer is installed". So I need to install a latest version of "gnome-mplayer"

I tried to install the version 1.0.8 from the source and to compile it. No way...
So I browsed the web to find a latest version, as only version 1.0.0 is available at "atrpms".

yum list gnome-mplayer
Installed Packages
gnome-mplayer.x86_64                 1.0.0-12.el6              @atrpms

yum list gnome-mplayer  --disablerepo=base,elrepo,extras,rpmforge,updates,linuxtech,atrpms


Here the page, I found useful informations
http://pkgs.org/download/gnome-mplayer
http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/puias-i386/gnome-mplayer-1.0.3-2.puias6.i686.rpm.html

So for my CentOS 6, a RPM version 1.0.4 is available in "Nux Dextop" yum repository.

http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/nux-dextop-x86_64/gnome-mplayer-1.0.4-16.el6.nux.x86_64.rpm.html

Install Howto

1. Download the latest "nux-dextop-release" RPM from

http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/

it seems to be:
nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm

Note:
smplayer 0.8.5 (smplayer-0.8.5-1.el6.nux.x86_64.rpm) seems to be available here, but I don't installed it now, maybe later.



2. Install nux-dextop-release rpm:

rpm -Uvh nux-dextop-release*rpm


3. Install gnome-mplayer rpm package:

yum install gnome-mplayer

yum list gnome-mplayer
...
Installed Packages
gnome-mplayer.x86_64            1.0.4-16.el6.nux             @nux-dextop


Conclusion:

Finally MPlayer with the gnome-mplayer version 1.0.4 is installed on my CentOS 6, and it's working.
It's what I need. So I'am happy, even if I spent a long time to install it.

 

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