Playing .avi files under Linux

Ronald Bradford
January 22, 2006

Got myself some .avi files but didn’t have a player under CenOS 4.2. MPlayer would appear to rate well as a media player for linux.

<br /> yum install mplayer<br /> yum install lame<br />

Unfortunately mplayer while registered could not be downloaded, tried the hard way

wget http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/4/i386/mplayer-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh mplayer-1.0pre7try2-2.i386.rpm

lame wasn’t needed via the manual process, but just in case

#wget http://rpm.greysector.net/yum/4/i386/libmp3lame-3.96.1-4.i386.rpm
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Surprisingly, it’s not a GUI interface, but mplayer on the command line is more then adequate.

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