[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung for this link. ]
“In this tutorial you will learn how to get the source for
mplayerplug-in from CVS and create and install a rpm package for
Fedora Core 1. mplayerplug-in is a browser plugin that uses mplayer
to play videos from websites. Although, mplayerplug-in project DO
provide a binary rpm for Fedora Core 1, this is a good excercise to
learn how to use CVS and how to compile a rpm package from a
tarball if the tarball contains a rpm spec file. This tutorial also
covers how you can install win32 codecs for QuickTime so you can
play QuickTime movies from mozilla…”