One more mplayer qyestion

[oldman]

Antonio Montagnani wrote:

> oldman said the following on 02/10/2005 18:34:
>
>> John Wendel wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>> mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.fc4 is available and is much better, at least 
>> for FC4
>> also I had a lot of trouble with codecs until I discovered that 
>> mplayer looked for them in /usr/local/lib/win32 (note the local subdir)
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Scott
>>
> Scott
> I installed w32codec rpm from ATRPM and target directory is 
> /usr/lib/win32.
> Where did you find that mplayer looks for codec in usr/local/lib/win32??
>
> Rgds
>
    I got my mplayer from freshrpms and when i tried to view a video 
from the command line, I saw there in the output, that it was looking 
for the codec in the /usr/local/lib/win32 directory.  I presume that 
this was compiled in by freshrpms, but in any event, works great for me!

Scott