Re: Mplayer Frustrations

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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:50:57 -0400

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:16:44 -0400, C.Beamer wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've tried to search the archives for similar posts, but the oldest
> post that comes up in a search is Sept. 2004. I've sorted the
> archives by thread and still didn't find anything related to my
> problem. So, I'm posting and I apologize if this has been asked before.
>
> I am tearing my hair out by the roots and would prefer not to become
> bald! I've installed Mplayer via yum. I removed it and installed via
> source tarball. I removed the files from the tarball installation and
> installed again vi yum. It doesn't matter which way I do it, I have
> the same result. Mplayer works, it produces sound, but I get no
> video, either with mplayer by itself or from within Firefox where I've
> installed the mplayerplug-in. And yes, I've installed the fonts and
> the codecs.
>
> I honestly don't know what the big deal is. I had mplayer working
> just fine under FC3. I love Fedora, but with all the quirks that I've
> struggled through with FC4, I almost wish I had never upgraded.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen

You got me worried! I tried mine on a .wmv file and it didn't work either,
but it did work on an avi, so I figured it must be a missing win32 codec.
And I looked at the mplayer output and there it was:

Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x84ec5c9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x84ec5c9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvdmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!

Do you get something like this? Clear, right? Get the codecs from
mplayer.hu and put them in /usr/local/lib/win32. The README that comes
with them says they should go to /usr/local/lib/codecs, but I guess the
FC4 mplayer was compiled with win32.

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