Getting Video Playing on Slackware 10.2

I always wanted to play embedded video clips inside of my browser in slackware. Never got to. This time around, I finally got ready to this. Its really easy. The first thing you want to make sure that’s compiled in your kernel is RTC, make sure that’s compiled as a module.
After that’s done you’re ready to download mplayer which can be obtained from here. On my notebook I compiled from source and when you’re doing that, make sure you compile it with this option
./configure –enable-gui
While you’re at downloading mplayer, make sure you do download the essential codecs package. Once mplayer’s installed successfully next step is to unzip the contents of the essential codecs package. Make a folder in /usr/lib called win32 and put the contents of the codecs package in that folder. Once that’s done, you proceed on download the mplayer plugin for mozilla browsers which can be obtained from here. After I downloaded the mplayer plugin these are the instructions I followed (courtesy: the mplayer plugin site)

cd to the directory you extracted mplayerplugin
./configure
make
cp mplayerplug-in*.so mplayerplug-in*.xpt ~/.mozilla/plugins (make sure you do this step keeping in mind you’re copying these files to your folder not the sudo or root folder)
AND THAT’S IT