// MPlayer on Red Hat with APT HOWTO
//
// by Unduhtakuh
//
// http://www.oldskoolphreak.com


To preface, the author would like to partake in self-disclosure.  I'm a
Red Hat whore.  I love Red Hat.  I use it at work, at home, and on my
laptop on the road.  I don't care if others think that Red Hat is the
Microsoft of Linux.  I don't want to use Fedora.  I want Red Hat.  I've
paid for Professional Workstation and it was money well-spent.  Red Hat 9
is, in my opinion, one of the best distributions ever, and it is well
supported to this day.  In addition, anyone can use the exceptional
White Box Enterprise Linux, and I've yet to run into a RH 9 RPM that
doesn't work in RHEL 3.

This HOWTO shows you how to get the latest MPlayer up and running on
your Red Hat box using not much more than APT (Advanced Package Tool)
and a text editor.  This HOWTO was developed on RHPW, and tested on RH 9
and RHEL WS.  It is assumed that you have APT installed, know how to use
it, and have a working, up-to-date box.  The author is partial to nano
and making backups of configuration files before editing:

	# cp config.file config.file.bak && nano config.file

Go ahead and become root and we'll jump right in. 

1. Remove any previous versions of MPlayer, however they were installed.
   On my system, it was as simple as:

	# rpm -e mplayer
	# rpm -e mplayer-fonts

2. Add the Grey Sector APT repository by downloading greysector.list to
   /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

	# cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
	# wget http://greysector.rangers.eu.org/apt/greysector.list

3. Choose the Red Hat 9 packages by adding the following line to
   greysector.list.

	rpm  http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/greysector/apt/  9  \
	stable testing unstable

4. Update your box.

	# apt-get update
	# apt-get upgrade
	# apt-get dist-upgrade

5. Install MPlayer, with GUI, and the essential codecs.

	# apt-get install mplayer-gui
	# apt-get install mplayer-codecs-essential

6. Set up gmplayer to use the attractive Abyss skin by changing the
   following line in ~/.mplayer/gui.conf.

	gui_skin = "Abyss"

MPlayer is now in the Red Hat -> Sound & Video -> More Sound & Video
Applications menu.  You can watch MPEGs, QuickTime, Windows Media
(why?), as well as your avi collection gleaned from suprnova.org (RIP).

The author would like to close with a few thoughts.  Don't be hatin' the
Red Hat, use the command line more often, and share your knowledge,
however noobish you think it may be.  Odds are, there's somebody out
there who could use the info.


Resources
---------
APT for Red Hat -
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/

MPlayer RPMs -
http://greysector.rangers.eu.org/mplayer/

White Box Enterprise Linux -
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/