One more mplayer qyestion

[John Wendel]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:46:32PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 30 September 2005 5:36 pm, akonstam at trinity.edu 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