How I built mplayer and the mplayer plugin on Mandrake 9.0
http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html
Realplayer 9
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/dload.html
mplayer
download the mplayer codecs and install to the following places
./configure --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32 --enable-win32
--enable-gui \
--enable-freetype --with-reallibdir=/usr/lib/rp9/ --enable-live \
--with-livelibdir=/usr/lib/live --enable-qtx-codecs