Mencoder & Mplayer in Centos

Essential packages :

yum install libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libungif-devel pkgconfig libdv-devel
speex-devel libmad-devel lame-devel xvidcore-devel x264-devel libmpcdec-devel
faac-devel


Download the following archives:

wget -c http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

wget -c http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2


Install the codecs:

tar xjf all-20071007.tar.bz2

mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs

cp -a all-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/

cd ..

Install mencoder and mplayer:

tar xjf MPlayer-1.0rc1.tar.bz2

cd MPlayer-1.0rc1

TMPDIR=/root ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

make

make install

Once finished mencoder will be installed in /usr/local/bin/mencoder, and mplayer in /usr/local/bin/mplayer.
If there is a problem with the ivtv libraries in 64 bit environments. Just try the whole process again without ivtv - you won't need it on a webserver anyway.

cd /path-to-mplayer-src/
make clean && make distclean
./configure --disable-ivtv
make && make install

Inorder to check whether Mplayer is working :
mplayer -v