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 Checkout the mplayer source from cvs #!/bin/sh DOWNLOADS=/home/james/downloads MPLAYER=$DOWNLOADS/mplayer cd $MPLAYER cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer login # cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mplayerhq.hu:/cvsroot/mplayer co main # When asked for a password, just hit enter. A directory named 'main' will be created. You can later update your sources by saying cvs -z3 update -dPA Download and install libdvdcss http://www.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/libdvdcss-1.2.8.tar.bz2 ./configure --prefix=/usr make && make install download the mplayer codecs ffmpeg-cvs-2003-08-23 live qt6dlls rp9codecs xanimdlls Download nasm --> http://nasm.sourceforge.net/ libxvid depends on it I used the src.rpm Download libxvidcore http://files.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-0.9.2.tar.bz2 Follow the installation instructions at $CVS_DOWNLOAD_DIR/main/DOCS/en/documentation.html#installation ./configure \ --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs \ --enable-win32 \ --enable-gui \ --enable-freetype \ --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs \ --enable-live \ --with-livelibdir=/usr/local/lib/live \ --enable-smb \ --enable-vorbis \ --enable-xmms \ --enable-gl \ --enable-menu \ --disable-esd \ --enable-mmx2 \ --with-sdl-config=/usr/bin/sdl-config \ --with-freetype-config=/usr/bin/freetype-config \ --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs