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It's just not fair - Overrated and Underrated are more like Metamoderations, but MY karma takes the hit!;^)
Also, I don't believe Overrated and Underrated are ever meta-moderated, so they are abused by people as a means to mod-down those with whom the moderator disagrees without fear of metamoderation.
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Congratulations.
So write up an FAQ. Tell us:
1) What WMs work with what video programs. 2) What libraries are required. 3) What version of gcc you used *G* 4) What flags are set, where to set them, and what's "right" for a wide range of systems, say, a few nVIDIA and ATI systems on AMD and Intel chips, and/or any specific motherboard-related issues. 5) All the other variables I've overlooked, but that you didn't, that make the difference between "It Works" and "It Doesn't".
You don't need to know all of that if you install Gentoo. While Gentoo isn't the only answer, nor is it for everyone, it is in my experience, for those wishing to do serious video work with the current state of the art software (read: most recent bug fixes and features) without comprimising other capabilities (e.g. open office, mozilla support, etc. etc) the easiest approach.
Others will doubtlessly offer or make available online FAQs and recipes for their favorite distributions, but I doubt any of them compare to the simplicity of a single, two word command typed at the command line.
The installation of Gentoo seems daunting to those who like to choose from menus and click 'yes', and it is a very fair criticism that the installation (mostly manual, but with excellent online, step-by-step documentation, and very easy to script up yourself as I have done where I work) lacks the aesthetics and ease of Mandrake, Suse, and Red Hat, but once that is done maintaining currency with the current state of the art is extraordinarilly simple.
Gentoo makes compiling and installing software trivial. In short, the answer to all of your questions above boils down to:
emerge, a portage command, will resolve all of the library and runtime dependencies for you, compile and install them all (and the specific versions you need, if any), and then download the current mplayer sources, compile and install them for you. Once the compile is done, you're ready to start watching movies.
It really doesn't get any simpler than that (attempts at making things like this simpler with other distros has resulted in very unreliable upgrade procedures, and, quite frankly, don't work well. This approach of getting the sources from the horses mouth, so to speak, compiling them as they were intended against the currently installed library base, optimized for the local hardware, is really ideal. Simplifying this procedure to a single two-word command was ingenious.)
I've done this on probably 50 machines, of varying architectures and hardware capabilities, ranging from hand-held, touch screen tablets to laptops, desktops, and servers, with everything from pentium mmx chips to dual athlon 2400+ MP systems (warning: the slower ships will take days to compile everything!) and it has always worked painlessly and flawlessly.
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Please DON'T mod me up - I've already taken 2 "-1 Overrated"'s as it is!
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It's just not fair - Overrated and Underrated are more like Metamoderations, but MY karma takes the hit!
Also, I don't believe Overrated and Underrated are ever meta-moderated, so they are abused by people as a means to mod-down those with whom the moderator disagrees without fear of metamoderation.
PLEASE! DON'T MOD ME PAST 3!
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Congratulations.
So write up an FAQ. Tell us:
1) What WMs work with what video programs.
2) What libraries are required.
3) What version of gcc you used *G*
4) What flags are set, where to set them, and what's "right" for a wide range of systems, say, a few nVIDIA and ATI systems on AMD and Intel chips, and/or any specific motherboard-related issues.
5) All the other variables I've overlooked, but that you didn't, that make the difference between "It Works" and "It Doesn't".
You don't need to know all of that if you install Gentoo. While Gentoo isn't the only answer, nor is it for everyone, it is in my experience, for those wishing to do serious video work with the current state of the art software (read: most recent bug fixes and features) without comprimising other capabilities (e.g. open office, mozilla support, etc. etc) the easiest approach.
Others will doubtlessly offer or make available online FAQs and recipes for their favorite distributions, but I doubt any of them compare to the simplicity of a single, two word command typed at the command line.
The installation of Gentoo seems daunting to those who like to choose from menus and click 'yes', and it is a very fair criticism that the installation (mostly manual, but with excellent online, step-by-step documentation, and very easy to script up yourself as I have done where I work) lacks the aesthetics and ease of Mandrake, Suse, and Red Hat, but once that is done maintaining currency with the current state of the art is extraordinarilly simple.
Gentoo makes compiling and installing software trivial. In short, the answer to all of your questions above boils down to:
1) Install Gentoo
2) type, at the command line:
emerge mplayer
emerge, a portage command, will resolve all of the library and runtime dependencies for you, compile and install them all (and the specific versions you need, if any), and then download the current mplayer sources, compile and install them for you. Once the compile is done, you're ready to start watching movies.
It really doesn't get any simpler than that (attempts at making things like this simpler with other distros has resulted in very unreliable upgrade procedures, and, quite frankly, don't work well. This approach of getting the sources from the horses mouth, so to speak, compiling them as they were intended against the currently installed library base, optimized for the local hardware, is really ideal. Simplifying this procedure to a single two-word command was ingenious.)
I've done this on probably 50 machines, of varying architectures and hardware capabilities, ranging from hand-held, touch screen tablets to laptops, desktops, and servers, with everything from pentium mmx chips to dual athlon 2400+ MP systems (warning: the slower ships will take days to compile everything!) and it has always worked painlessly and flawlessly.
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