Using this link as a reference, and the docs, I was able to compile 
and install mplayer in under 2 hours.  It is clearly the best movie
player I have ever seen for Linux.

SuSE uses the "required" gcc version, so it compiled OK.  The hardest
part was realizing that I didn't have gtk-devel installed :)

mencoder is another issue . . .

Thanks for the pointer.

George


KevinO wrote:
> 
> George Toft wrote:
> > I looked at mplayer briefly, and discovered it was going to be
> > a paing in the butt to get working under SuSE.  I guess that will
> > be my next project, when I get lots of spare time.
> 
> I found this information helpful :
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1214.mplayer.html
> 
> I used gcc ver. 2.96 , IIRC .
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