How to play rmvb movies using Mplayer in Ubuntu
Posted on August 28, 2008
This guide will give you a step by step of intalling Mplayer which can play rmvb movies in ubuntu linux.
1.Install Mplayer using “Add/Remove” application if you have not installed it yet.Press Applications–Add/Remove.The installation will take several minute depending on your network.
If you used Ubuntu 8.04,please also install libstdc++5 using application Synaptic.(Press System–
Administration–Synaptic Package Manager)
2.Download and extract Mplayer binary codec,Now the latest package for linux x86 is
Linux x86 20071007.Please extract this tar.bz2 to proper directory.
3,Install the codec package in your terminal using following command
cd essential-date
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32
sudo cp * /usr/lib/win32
(Note,for ubuntu 8.04 please use “codecs” to replace win32,
eg:
cd essential-date
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
sudo cp * /usr/lib/codecs)
4.Launch MPLayer by pressing Applications -> Sound & Video -> MPlayer Movie Player. Right-click in the Mplayer – Video window and select Preferences from the menu.
Then select the Video tab and change the Available drivers: to x11 X11 (XImage/Shm).
Then select the Codecs & demuxer tab and change the Video codec family: to RealVideo decoder and the Audio codec family: to FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders. When you’re done, click OK and close down MPlayer.
5.Now you can play your rmvb movies using Mplayer in Ubuntu.
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