Need help with mPlayer

[Scott]

Nigel,

This is Scott his son I am the one who does the updates and that package was 
very small it didn't take very long for the ffmpeg codec to download.  Is 
there a good place where I can snag the rpm and download it anywhere else?

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: Need help with mPlayer


> On Thursday 13 September 2007 01:10, Art wrote:
>> Hi Nigel Things are going good.
>> Hay where can I find the windows codecs package.
>> THANKS FOR THE HELP.
>> Art.
>
> The w32codecs package isn't on the Livna list for Fedora 7 (i386), but
> installing the ffmpeg package should do.
>
> Just do a yum install ffmpeg
>
> That will pull in the ffmpeg-libs package as well.
>
> Hoping that works.
>
> Nigel.
>>
>> On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:06 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 17:03, Art wrote:
>> > > Hi I need some help setting up the mPlayer to play DVD's. I can bring
>> > > it up to the play list. On the list it dose not show the DVD. How do 
>> > > I
>> > > get to my DVD drive and what plugins do I need to install.
>> > > Thanks
>> > > Art Giles
>> >
>> > Hi Art. Hows it going?
>> >
>> > Where did you get Mplayer from? Freshrpms, or Livna? You don't only 
>> > need
>> > Mplayer, but also the w32codecs package.
>> >
>> > Make sure that Mplayer is setup to access your DVD drive.
>> >
>> > For example I have 3 optical drives (cdrom, cdwriter, and dvdrom) on 
>> > one
>> > of my machines. When you open Mplayer, at the extreme left of the 
>> > window
>> > with the controls on it there is a button. Click on that, which will
>> > bring up the preferences window. Click on "misc", and it will show you
>> > where it's trying to access your DVD rom drive from. In my case it's
>> > pointing to /dev/cdrom2, but I have 3 drives, and that is the correct 
>> > one
>> > for the DVD rom drive.
>> >
>> > On my other machine I have a combination drive (cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom).
>> > If I look at /dev in my file manager I have 3 entries, cdrom1, cdrw1, 
>> > and
>> > dvd1. All these are links pointing to the block device hdd.
>> >
>> > You need to make sure that what is there in Mplayers preferences > misc
>> > is pointing to the correct link in /dev for the DVD device.
>> >
>> > An alternative for playing DVD's is the vlc package, but you will also
>> > need to install the libdvdcss package as well ( that may be 
>> > libdvdcss2),
>> > and may well still need to check that it's accessing your drive 
>> > correctly
>> > in /dev.
>> >
>> > All the best, and may the force be with you.
>> >
>> > Nigel.
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