<sect1 id="howto-installation"> <title>Installation</title> <sect2 id="howto-installation-dependencies"> <title>Dependencies</title> <sect3 id="howto-installation-mplayer"> <title>MPlayer</title> <para>&kplayer; uses <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">&mplayer;</ulink> as the multimedia backend for playing audio and video files and streams. This ensures maximum variety of supported types of files and encodings.</para> <para>You need to have &mplayer; version 0.90 or later. The recommended version is 1.0-pre5. If there are good binary packages for your distribution, use those. For example on Debian you would do</para> <para><userinput><command>echo</command> 'deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main' >> <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename></userinput></para> <para><userinput><command>apt-get</command> update</userinput></para> <para><userinput><command>apt-get</command> install mplayer-k7</userinput></para> <para>Substitute <literal>unstable</literal> for <literal>stable</literal> or <literal>testing</literal> as required, and <literal>k7</literal> for <literal>386</literal>, <literal>586</literal>, <literal>686</literal> or <literal>k6</literal>, according to your processor type.</para> <para>As always <ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/faq.html#faq-compilation">compiling from source</ulink> is an option.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="howto-installation-xvideo"> <title>X11 and XVideo</title> <para>X11 is required. Recommended versions are XFree86 4.2.x and 4.3.x, as well as X Server versions released by X.org.</para> <para>XVideo extension is recommended. You can check your <filename>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</filename> or <filename>/etc/X11/XF86Config-4</filename> file for a line that reads</para> <para><userinput>Load "extmod"</userinput></para> <para>This is the line that loads XVideo extension, so make sure it is not disabled. Also check <filename>/var/log/XFree86.0.log</filename> to make sure that XVideo is loaded without error.</para> <para>See the <link linkend="howto-configuration">Configuration micro-HOWTO</link> if you want to use a different video output.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="howto-installation-kde"> <title>Qt and KDE</title> <para>&kplayer; 0.5 supports &kde; 3.1.x, 3.2.x and 3.3.x, so you need to either run a relatively recent &kde; (recommended) or at least have &kde; libraries and the corresponding Qt libraries on your system.</para> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="howto-installation-installation"> <title>Installation</title> <sect3 id="howto-installation-binary"> <title>Binary install</title> <para>The recommended way to install &kplayer; is by using the binary package built specifically for your distribution. The <ulink url="http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/#downloads">Downloads section</ulink> of the &kplayer; home page lists the available packages and repositories.</para> <para><ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=137121">Add a section for your distro</ulink></para> </sect3> <sect3 id="howto-installation-source"> <title>Compiling from source</title> <para>If you cannot install a precompiled binary for any reason, you can compile &kplayer; yourself. See the <link linkend="howto-compilation">Compilation Micro-HOWTO</link> for instructions.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="howto-installation-cvs"> <title>Compiling from CVS</title> <para>If you want to try the latest and greatest &kplayer; features at the risk of getting some parts of it broken, you can compile the latest <acronym>CVS</acronym> code. See the <link linkend="howto-compilation">Compilation Micro-HOWTO</link> for details.</para> </sect3> </sect2> </sect1>