Adtools » PHP http://blog.adtools.co.uk Advertising Operations & Ad Technology, insights from within the world of AdOps. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:56:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to install mencoder & mplayer on a dreamhost shared host http://blog.adtools.co.uk/how-to-install-mencoder-mplayer-on-a-dreamhost-shared-host/183/ http://blog.adtools.co.uk/how-to-install-mencoder-mplayer-on-a-dreamhost-shared-host/183/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:55:52 +0000 Sean http://blog.adtools.co.uk/?p=183 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.

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