These instructions are taken from http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.html, and are worthy of noting because
they worked flawlessly with my FC2 and FC4 installations. Lame is an open source MP3 encoder. MPlayer uses lame for compressing
audio into MP3 audio when encoding files from MPEG or other sources. Lame is not required to decode MP3 audio.
Current Version: 3.96.1
Release Date: 2004-07-24
Download: http://lame.sourceforge.net/download/download.html
Installation: Decompress the source, configure it, compile it and install.
[root@charon mm]# gunzip -c lame-3.96.1.tar.gz | tar xvf -
[root@charon mm]# cd lame-3.96.1
[root@charon lame-3.96.1]# ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
-- LOTS OF CHECKS... --
config.status: creating mac/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default-1 commands
[root@charon lame-3.96.1]# make
-- COMPILING... --
[root@charon lame-3.96.1]# make install
Note: If you install Lame without --prefix=/usr MPlayer may not properly link to the Lame libraries.