mplayer codec in Fedora Core 4

[Antonio Montagnani]

If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which is the target 
directory???

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 30.09.2005 schrieb Antonio Montagnani um 16:15:
> If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which is the target 
> directory???
> Antonio

I am sure you would find this info on the mplayer site itself. Anyway:
/usr/lib/win32

Alexander

[korgull]

On Friday 30 September 2005 16:15, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which is the target
> directory???

Best not install from the tar file but from RPM but I think they are normally 
put in /usr/lib/win32
Better use yum or apt or smart to get it from a repository. This way you're 
sure that when updates are available that you also get them.

Regards,
Marcel

[Antonio Montagnani]

Marcel Janssen said the following on 30/09/2005 17:47:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 16:15, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> > If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which is the target
> > directory???
>
> Best not install from the tar file but from RPM but I think they are normally 
> put in /usr/lib/win32
> Better use yum or apt or smart to get it from a repository. This way you're 
> sure that when updates are available that you also get them.
>
> Regards,
> Marcel

Tnx both of you

Alexander, my question arose from a README reading that made me very 
confused, saying that some distributions put codecs here and other 
distribution there (do you know what I mean...)
Marcel, where do i get RPM for essential and add-on codecs?

Tnx

[John Wendel]

Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which is the target 
> directory???

The mplayers docs specify /usr/lib/codecs. /usr/lib/win32 also works.

Regards,

John

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Antonio Montagnani 
wrote:
> If I untar the additional codecs for mplayer, which
> is the target 
> directory???

/usr/local/lib/codecs is the place where the Mplayer
README recommends but others use
/usr/local/lib/win32/codecs/ or some thing like that. 
I would recommend /usr/local/lib/codecs because they
also recommend that.  If you use the later you would
have to link the directory to map over there.

Best Regards,

Antonio
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[korgull]

On Friday 30 September 2005 18:08, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> Marcel, where do i get RPM for essential and add-on codecs?

You'll find it here :
http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/RPMS.stable/
(name is w32codec)

The best is to add the atrpms repository to your yum installation or install 
smart and let yum/smart handle the installation.

Regards,
Marcel

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:22:14AM +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 18:08, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> > Marcel, where do i get RPM for essential and add-on codecs?
>
> You'll find it here :
> http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/RPMS.stable/
> (name is w32codec)
>
> The best is to add the atrpms repository to your yum installation or install 
> smart and let yum/smart handle the installation.
>
> Regards,
> Marcel

Well things are not as bad as I thought. I can view mpegs and videos
but not the ones from cnn and msnnbc. Both of thoes insist on Windows
media player.  Any suggestions?

[Antonio Montagnani]

[e-mail] said the following on 02/10/2005 00:16:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:22:14AM +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > On Friday 30 September 2005 18:08, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> > > Marcel, where do i get RPM for essential and add-on codecs?
> >
> > You'll find it here :
> > http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/RPMS.stable/
> > (name is w32codec)
> >
> > The best is to add the atrpms repository to your yum installation or install 
> > smart and let yum/smart handle the installation.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marcel
>
> Well things are not as bad as I thought. I can view mpegs and videos
> but not the ones from cnn and msnnbc. Both of thoes insist on Windows
> media player.  Any suggestions?

I have the same problem with Alice that is the main video on demand 
provider in Italy...

[korgull]

On Sunday 02 October 2005 00:16, [e-mail] wrote:
> Well things are not as bad as I thought. I can view mpegs and videos
> but not the ones from cnn and msnnbc. Both of thoes insist on Windows
> media player.  Any suggestions?

That's because some stupid web designer made it to only play on windows.
Probably this could be overcome by having kaffeine or another player behave 
like windows media player, assuming that it can play the video using the 
available codec.

Regards,
Marcel

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:22:14AM +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 18:08, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> > Marcel, where do i get RPM for essential and add-on codecs?
>
> You'll find it here :
> http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/RPMS.stable/
> (name is w32codec)
>
> The best is to add the atrpms repository to your yum installation or install 
> smart and let yum/smart handle the installation.
>
> Regards,
> Marcel

I have added this codec, installed mplayer, mplayer-libs and
mplayer-plugin rpms and still www.cnn.com videos demand the Windows
Media Player. Has anyone ever got this to work for news videos?

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Computer Science
Trinity University
telephone: [phone]

[Antonio Montagnani]

[e-mail] said the following on 05/10/2005 16:21:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:22:14AM +0200, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > On Friday 30 September 2005 18:08, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> > > Marcel, where do i get RPM for essential and add-on codecs?
> >
> > You'll find it here :
> > http://dl.atrpms.net/fc4-i386/atrpms/RPMS.stable/
> > (name is w32codec)
> >
> > The best is to add the atrpms repository to your yum installation or install 
> > smart and let yum/smart handle the installation.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marcel
>
> I have added this codec, installed mplayer, mplayer-libs and
> mplayer-plugin rpms and still www.cnn.com videos demand the Windows
> Media Player. Has anyone ever got this to work for news videos?
>
> =======================================================================
> I used to get high on life but lately I've built up a resistance.
>
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: [phone]

It works here.
And I installed w32codec from Rpm in /usr/lib/win32....