TUTORIAL: mplayerplug-in

by Thomas Chung on Dec 26, 2003 (UPDATED 2006-08-28)

UPDATE 2006-08-28
mplayerplug-in 3.31 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2006-04-13
mplayerplug-in 3.25 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2006-02-12
mplayerplug-in 3.21 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2006-02-03
mplayerplug-in 3.20 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2005-11-28
mplayerplug-in 3.16 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2005-11-06
mplayerplug-in 3.15 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2005-09-13
mplayerplug-in 3.11 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2005-09-12
mplayerplug-in 3.10 has been released. Here is updated spec and patch.

UPDATE 2005-07-21
mplayerplug-in 3.01 has been released.

UPDATE 2005-07-18
mplayerplug-in 3.00 has been released.

UPDATE 2005-06-13
mplayerplug-in 2.85 has been released.

UPDATE 2005-02-15
mplayerplug-in 2.80 has been released.

UPDATE 2004-12-15
mplayerplug-in 2.75 has been released.

UPDATE 2004-09-26
Here is an updated article for mplayerplug-in 2.70 which is compatible with Firefox.

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In this tutorial you will learn how to get the source for mplayerplug-in from CVS and create and install a rpm package for Fedora Core 1. mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer to play videos from websites. Although, mplayerplug-in project DO provide a binary rpm for Fedora Core 1, this is a good excercise to learn how to use CVS and how to compile a rpm package from a tarball if the tarball contains a rpm spec file. This tutorial also covers how you can install win32 codecs for QuickTime so you can play QuickTime movies from mozilla.

Create a rpmbuild directory if you haven't already.
Create cvs directory in your home directory.

[tchung@localhost tchung]$ mkdir cvs