Re: One more mplayer qyestion

[Oldman]

Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> oldman said the following on 02/10/2005 18:34:
> > John Wendel wrote:
> > > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:46:32PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 30 September 2005 5:36 pm, [e-mail] wrote:
> > > > > > So I went and installed:
> > > > > > mplayer-1.0.0-0.20050916.1.fc4.ut
> > > > > > mplayer-libs-1.0.0-0.20050916.1.fc4.ut
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And this is what happened. When I opened a movie trailer I got by
> > > > > > e-mail I got the sound but not the picture.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then I went to www.css.com and tried to play their video. An error
> > > > > > message that it could not find Windows media player.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So what do I do now.?
> > > > >
> > > > > are the libs the same as the codecs? if not, you need to install 
> > > > > those - I've got it working and never installed any libs to my 
> > > > > knowledge, though they may have been installed as dependencies. 
> > > > > Codecs are available at mplayer's site. You need to get the 'all' 
> > > > > package and put them in /usr/lib/win32
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Claude Jones
> > > > > Bluemont, VA, USA
> > > >
> > > > I am still confused. I downloaded all-20050412.tar which is supposed
> > > > to have the codecs. Untared this and put the files contained in
> > > > all-20050412 directory in /usr/lib/win32
> > > > > From www.cnn.com it still asks me for the Windows media player. Where
> > > >
> > > > have I gone wrong?
> > >
> > > This is not a codec problem, You need to have the mplayerplug-in 
> > > installed. Probably from dag or livna repositories.
> > >
> > > Here is what I have installed, mplayerplug-in-2.80-13.1.fc3.rf
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.fc4 is available and is much better, at least 
> > for FC4
> > also I had a lot of trouble with codecs until I discovered that 
> > mplayer looked for them in /usr/local/lib/win32 (note the local subdir)
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Scott
>
> Scott
> I installed w32codec rpm from ATRPM and target directory is 
> /usr/lib/win32.
> Where did you find that mplayer looks for codec in usr/local/lib/win32??
>
> Rgds

I got my mplayer from freshrpms and when i tried to view a video 
from the command line, I saw there in the output, that it was looking 
for the codec in the /usr/local/lib/win32 directory.  I presume that 
this was compiled in by freshrpms, but in any event, works great for me!

Scott