2013-05-17. Inspired by wanting video thumbnails (Scientific Linux 6.4, Konqueror/Dolphin). Still not finding useful things on web-searches about RHEL6 + thumbnail + video | mplayer | ffmpeg . But some interesting general things: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS http://www.libre-software.net/multimedia-support-centos-scientific-linux-rhel yum install compat-libstdc++-33 libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd libquicktime flash-plugin mplayerplug-in mplayer gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm yum install mplayer-codecs-*