Follow this guide and you'll be able to play close to everything on your box, and you can convert most formats. First - remove all of the following installed from repositories: sudo apt-get remove ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev mplayer mencoder libxvidcore-dev libxvidcore4 libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev libmp3lame-dev libfaac-dev libogg-dev sudo apt-get update Install the dependencies: sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool-bin checkinstall git cvs subversion libjack-jackd2-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev texi2html yasm zlib1g-dev original-awk libgtk2.0-dev mercurial cmake cmake-curses-gui gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi g++-arm-linux-gnueabi Download x264, xvid, ffmpeg and mplayer with git and svn, compile and install: cd~ git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264 cd x264 ./configure --enable-static --disable-asm --disable-opencl && make sudo make install make distclean cd~ svn checkout ...
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