Manuel Otto <not-for-mail@adress.is.invalid> wrote:
> Mplayer:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#source
>
> Mplayer codecs:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dloa...#binary_codecs
> (will let you even play all current types of WMV movies).
>
> A basic skin to start with, I would go for skin 'Blue':
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#skins
>
> And then SMplayer (better then KMplayer), an advanced skin on top of
> that, which forfills about al my needs:
> http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/index.php
>
> Or Slackware packages for Mplayer with skin allreaddy buit-in, and
> SMplayer:
> http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_...layer&ver=12.0
>
> And Mplayer codecs:
> http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_...ntial&ver=11.0
> (Works on Slackware 12, and if not, just extract to the appropiate
> directory).
>

for something as sensitive as mplayer, I would recommend the build script at
http://www.slackbuilds.org. Many people have reported that mplayer seems to
run a lot better when compiled on the machine it's intended to run on.

Both the codecs and the player are available from
http://www.slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/multimedia/, and the MPlayer
SlackBuild installs the Blue skin.