One more mplayer qyestion

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:15:07AM -0700, oldman wrote:
> 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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