One more mplayer qyestion
oldman
talbotscott at cox.net
Thu Oct 6 14:39:19 UTC 2005
Kam Leo wrote:
> On 10/5/05, *akonstam at trinity.edu <mailto:akonstam at trinity.edu>*
> <akonstam at trinity.edu <mailto:akonstam at trinity.edu>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:15:07AM -0700, oldman wrote:
> > akonstam at trinity.edu <mailto:akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:34:55AM -0700, oldman wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>>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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >That is not where the w32codec rpm puts them.
> > >
> > >
> > That is the point. You need to have the codecs where mplayer
> looks
> > for them, not where someone else puts them.
> >
> > Scott
> I need to apologize. I made a soft link from /usr/local/lib/win32 to
> /usr/lib/win32 and the CNN video now works. Strangely but it works.
> Thanks for the tip.
> --
>
> =======================================================================
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> -- Karl, as he stepped behind the computer to reboot it, during a FAT
> -------------------------------------------
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
>
>
>
> Take the time to read the README bundled in the all-20050412 package.
> It's all documented in there.
>
>
>
Thanks for the tip! I suspect a number of life's trials could be
avoided if I just read the directions!
Scott
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