Quote Originally Posted by Cuddles
Should I go for the v1.0PRE3 source, or the older v0.92 ???

I assume, the best, would be to get the "all-in-one" Codec's

Do I need GOOM? (what in the world is GOOM?)

Do I need to get any of the extra Codec's - if I get the all-in-one? I just plan on using the DVD Player anyway.

Do I need any of the Fonts? Or is it fine without them?

Thanks for all the help, in advance, and for getting me this far...

Cuddles
[ps] Anyone have any resolve on Xine, I am waiting for that as well
You can get already built packages for mplayer add:
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## Various Multimedia Helper Apps ##
deb http://hpisi.nerim.net/ unstable main
To your /etc/apt/sources.list and dselect update and then to install apt-get -s install mplayer-??? w32codecs replace the ??? with the machine type of install you want 386, 686 or k7 you may want to look at installing some of the suggested and recommended as well it been a while so I not sure what can get pulled in with it and if the command looks good remove the -s to install some notes I made for my self at the time of install you may want to do similar if you find the same behavior now:
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Mplayer command line tweaks I noticed from warnings when running it from the command line to get configuration files recognized and my joystick working. 2003-11-05

For joystick:

HappyTux:/home/stephen# ll /dev/input/js0
crw-rw----    1 root     root      13,   0 2002-03-14 17:54 /dev/input/js0
HappyTux:/home/stephen# chmod o+r /dev/input/js0
HappyTux:/home/stephen# ll /dev/input/js0
crw-rw-r--    1 root     root      13,   0 2002-03-14 17:54 /dev/input/js0

For input.conf:

HappyTux:/home/stephen# cp /etc/mplayer/input.conf /home/stephen/.mplayer/
HappyTux:/home/stephen# chown stephen:stephen /home/stephen/.mplayer/input.conf


For codecs.conf:

HappyTux:/home/stephen# cp /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf /home/stephen/.mplayer/
HappyTux:/home/stephen# chown stephen:stephen /home/stephen/.mplayer/codecs.conf

For fonts.desc

HappyTux:/home/stephen# mkdir /home/stephen/.mplayer/font
HappyTux:/home/stephen# cp /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc /home/stephen/.mplayer/font/
HappyTux:/home/stephen# chown stephen:stephen /home/stephen/.mplayer/font/font.desc
HappyTux:/home/stephen# chown stephen:stephen /home/stephen/.mplayer/font