Build MPlayer the right way and fast on Fedora

We all know Mplayer and love it for the amazing multimedia features it has...

But for a while it has not seen any updates. Today while looking around the web I found the latest RC build of Mplayer and gave it a spin and boy does it rock :D If you are anything like me and love to compile some code to get better results, this post is for you.

Do try the latest build of MPlayer ... it's not a new project/software but the new build rocks....

I got it working with very low cpu usage and good quality with the following tweaks...

Download the latest MPlayer 1.0 RC4  from here

ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/mplayer-checkout-snapshot.tar.bz2

Also download the latest source of Yasm as it is needed.

( you can always do a yum install yasm, but this will install ver 1.0.1 not the latest and greatest ver 1.1.0)

http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.1.0.tar.gz

Uncompress the yasm source, use ark or the command line whatever does it for you.

extract and change to the dir..

now export the following

#export CFLAGS='-O3 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native'

#export CXXFLAGS='-O3 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native'

Note if you have a Core 2 Duo use 'core2' for better results.

#./configure

#make -j6

#make -j6 check

you should get

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All 41 tests passed

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#make install

Now extract mplayer-checkout-2011-02-01 and change to the dir.. 

#./configure  

(this will check out the latest svn build of ffmpeg first, you must have a working internet connection)

#make -j6

#make install

That's it enjoy much faster and better quality video playback on your Fedora Linux.