newbie: howto install mplayer codecs

[Stanton Finley]

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:26 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> Stanton Finley <stanfinley at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > You could follow the directions in the Xine section of
> > http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html It also
> > covers mplayer codec installation.
> 
> May I ask why you suggest that I copy the codecs from
> /usr/local/lib/codecs to /usr/lib/win32, rather than making /usr/lib/win32
> a symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/codecs?
> 
> Regards
> Ingemar
> 

Because in the past others have reported problems with either Xine and /
or Mplayer having trouble accessing the codecs via a symbolic link
rather than directly. It seems to be more reliable this way.
-- 
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/