To install mplayer onto your Centos / RHEL distro you will need to :
1. Download and install the rpmforge repository.
rpm -ivh
2. Add the following text to a new file : /etc/yum.repos.d/fc6.repo.
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fc6.repo
[PASTE THE FOLLOWING]
[fc6-base]
name=Fedora Core 6
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[CTRL-C]
3. Install mplayer using yum.
yum install mplayer
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