Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Sun Jul 10 02:29:38 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 22:15 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:34 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > Picking a nit for safety.
> > 
> > One should never ever say
> > 
> >     rm -rf /anything
> > 
> > If one were to make any of a number of mistakes, such as accidentally
> > pressing RETURN or SPACE after any of the /'s, there will terrible
> > damage
> > done.  Instead, cd into the desired containing directory and then rm -
> > rf
> > name, no leading /.
> > 
> >     cd /usr/lib
> >     rm -rf win32
> 
> Also may want to check the contents of win32 first.  With my
> installation of w32codec RPM that's where they all live in the first
> place.

I don't think they have been released to the public yet - but apparently
fluendo has some working gstreamer-plugins for windows media that won't
_need_ windows libraries. Won't help mplayer, but would work with totem.

http://www.fluendo.com/products.php?product=plugins

QuickTime though would still be an issue.




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