On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:22:31AM +0000, John Rowe wrote:
> Does anybody know of a good movie player for SL4? I'm have a request
> from one of my astronomers and when I ask "what format?" he says all of
> them! I have xanim and trying to install an mplayer RPM gives a millions
> complaints about missing libraries and so on.

http://atrpms.net/name/mplayer/ works on RHEL4 and clones. It will
need some further dependencies, though, e.g. using apt on an
RHEL4/x86_64 box yields (using apt from the multilib branch from
Panu):

# apt-get install mplayer
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  aalib faad2 lame libdvdcss libdvdread libmad0 libpostproc libxvidcore4
  lirc-lib lzo mplayer-fonts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aalib faad2 lame libdvdcss libdvdread libmad0 libpostproc libxvidcore4
  lirc-lib lzo mplayer mplayer-fonts
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.3MB of archives.
After unpacking 34.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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