The extra downloads should be located in your source directory with the bzip2 files decompressed. The package maintainers recommend building without any optimization Install MPlayer by running the following commands: install -d /usr/lib/win32 && tar -xvf ../win32codecs.tar -C /usr/lib/win32 && tar -xvf ../qt5dlls.tar -C /usr/lib/win32 && tar -xvf ../qt6dlls.tar -C /usr/lib/win32 && tar -xvf ../qtextras.tar -C /usr/lib/win32 && tar -xvf ../rp9codecs.tar -C /usr/lib/win32 && ./configure --prefix=/usr --confdir=/etc/mplayer --enable-largefiles \ --enable-gui --enable-menu --enable-new-conf --enable-qtx-codecs \ --enable-vorbis --with-reallibdir=/usr/lib/win32/rp9codecs \ --enable-freetype --enable-shared-pp && make && make install Each user of MPlayer should complete the install by running the following commands: mkdir ~/.mplayer && cp etc/codecs.conf ~/.mplayer && cp etc/example.conf ~/.mplayer/example.conf If freetype is in use, the only advantage of prerendered fonts is that they are faster. Install them like this: install -d /usr/share/mplayer/font && tar -xvf ../font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar -C /usr/share/mplayer/font && for i in /usr/share/mplayer/font/font-arial-<size>* do ln -s $i /usr/share/mplayer/font; done Replace <size> with either 14, 18, 24 or 28. If you want DVD playback with MPlayer, you need to make a link from your DVD drive to /dev/dvd: ln -s /dev/<dvd drive> /dev/dvd replace <dvd drive> with whatever device is appropriate, for example /dev/hdc. if you don't know which device to choose, type: dmesg | grep DVD It should result in an output like: hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-114 0110, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive If you have SCSI-Emulation activated for the drives, you'll need to get the right SCSI-device. Every CD/DVD-ROM drive is mapped in the same order as in IDE to the devices named /dev/scd0, /dev/scd1 and so on.