Hello, I'm using Ubuntu (mini)12.04 or(lubuntu) with Lxde desktop

I need help getting gnome mplayer to play a video (it doesn't show a video) I have read that "lubuntu" has a bug with mplayer and to use mplayer2.
So I downloaded mplayer2-build-106bf4525ac9ef7a1cf8f1f41664d3be72121e99.tar.bz2
then folowed the instructions from here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10996224


$ sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 libdvdnav-dev libdvdread-dev && \ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
$ sudo apt-get build-dep mplayer
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core yasm autoconf libtool
$ git clone git://git.mplayer2.org/mplayer2-build.git
$ cd mplayer2-build && ./enable-mt && ./init
$ echo --prefix=$HOME >> ./mplayer_options
$ make -j4
$ make install
$ mv $HOME/bin/mplayer $HOME/bin/mplayer2

But when I got to here-- ' $ cd mplayer2-build && ./enable-mt && ./init '
I got something like error 124 'libass missing'
I got frustrated and exited out

I would like to start over but, I don't know what I'm doing yet. Do I need to delete all the mplayer files installed? or Does someone have a better build idea? Thanks