newbie: howto install mplayer codecs
Stanton Finley
stanfinley at comcast.net
Fri Apr 21 02:59:07 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:23 -0300, Ariel Frozza wrote:
> Hi Finley,
>
> Do you know if it's possible to use win codecs for mplayer on x86_64
> FC5?
> How could i do in order to play wmv in x86_64?
>
> Regards.
> Ariel
>
> On 4/7/06, Stanton Finley <stanfinley at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:26 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> > Stanton Finley <stanfinley at comcast.net> writes:
> >
> > > You could follow the directions in the Xine section of
> > >
> http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html It also
> > > covers mplayer codec installation.
> >
> > May I ask why you suggest that I copy the codecs from
> > /usr/local/lib/codecs to /usr/lib/win32, rather than
> making /usr/lib/win32
> > a symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/codecs?
> >
> > Regards
> > Ingemar
> >
>
> Because in the past others have reported problems with either
> Xine and /
> or Mplayer having trouble accessing the codecs via a symbolic
> link
> rather than directly. It seems to be more reliable this way.
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Yes it is possible but you have to also run 32 bit version of Mplayer.
(The codecs are 32 bit.) 32 bit Mplayer runs just fine on x86_64. Just
use the instructions at
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html.
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