How To Download And Install Codecs For Mplayer Using Terminal

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Written by Carlos Peraza on 2005-06-27

This is a very simple TASK done in the terminal/shell. Open terminal, become root and run the followings commands:

wget ftp://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2

tar jxvf all-20050412.tar.bz2

mkdir /usr/lib/win32

cp all-20050412/* /usr/lib/win32

Codes are updated from time to time and you can get the lastest updates here. (ftp://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/)

Here is an example:

[imdeemvp@laptopFC4 ~]$ wget ftp://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2
--02:43:29--  ftp://ftp3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20050412.tar.bz2
           => `all-20050412.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp3.mplayerhq.hu... 128.175.60.102

Connecting to ftp3.mplayerhq.hu[128.175.60.102]:21... connected.

Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!

==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.

==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /MPlayer/releases/codecs ... done.

==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR all-20050412.tar.bz2 ... done.

Length: 12,963,387 (unauthoritative)