How to install mencoder & mplayer on a dreamhost shared host
Cribbed from here http://www.netbrix.net/archives/20 a diwer tutorial on getting a Youtube like clone working on Dreamhost it covers installation of ffmpeg-php and flvtools as well, I’ll be looking at these in a later article.
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2
bunzip2 essential-20061022.tar.bz2
tar -xf essential-20061022.tar
mv essential-20061022 $HOME/lib
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
bunzip2 MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2
tar -xf MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar
cd MPlayer-1.0rc1
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-codecsdir=$HOME/lib/essential-20061022
make
make install
Have just run it another Dreamhost account I have and it worked a charm.
