MPlayer on Fedora

Fedora does not support MPlayer for some reason. But rpmfusion does it for us. Let’s install mplayer and learn some tricks to play rmvb files.

1. Add rpmfusion repository:

Enable RPM Fusion repositories

2. Install MPlayer

# yum install mplayer

3. Get codecs

Dowload all-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2 from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs

Let’s use all-20100303.tar.bz2 now.

# tar xf all-20100303.tar.bz2
# mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# mv all-20100303/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/

4. Enjoy it!

5. Play rmvb files

If there is no video or mplayer crashes when playing .rmvb files, you need to install libstdc++ libraries:

# yum install libstdc++ compat-libstdc++-33 compat-libstdc++-296

Then try using mplay to play rmvb files again. It should work now.

Update history
Dec. 21, 2010. Change codecs