Cannot play .flv files with gmplayer (whereas with mplayer it is ok)

[Nicolae Ghimbovschi]

I checked what codec xine was using while playing a flv file.
It was ffmpeg.
So, in order xine to be able to play .flv's install ffmpeg and ffmpeg-libs

as root:
# yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs

Cheers !


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Mark Ryden <markryde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nicolae,
> Thanks!
>
>  I tried it now.
>  It gave "unsupported codec'.
> Also trying to put the codecs unde /usr/local/lib/codecs instead of
> usr/lib/codecs did not help.
>
> Any help will be apprecaited.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
>
> 2008/4/1 Nicolae Ghimbovschi <xfreebird at gmail.com>:
> > Install the win32 codecs.
> >
> > You can download them from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
> > from "Binary Codec Packages" section.
> >
> > Unpack the archive into /usr/lib/codecs.
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is the right solution, but it might work.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Mark Ryden <markryde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry
> > > Does xine on FC8 plays flv files ?
> > >
> > > I have xine on fc8 from rpm.
> > >
> > > My xine does not play .flv  files.
> > >
> > > Should I install some plugin maybe ?
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 01:27 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > >  > gmplayer always faulted at some point whenever I used it. It
> happened
> > > >  > enough that I finally gave up on it.
> > > >
> > > >  I found the GUI versions of MPlayer very easy to crash, and the
> command
> > > >  line version to be much more stable.
> > > >
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