Re: Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

From: C.Beamer (cbeamer_at_interlynx.net)
Date: 07/09/05

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    Kenny Gow wrote:

    > Anyway, a bit of digging around revealed that the CNN video wants
    > to use the WMV 9 codec. And, I just happened to have another PC
    > that I put FC4 on and installed mplayer from livna as you did. I
    > got the same problem as you did on this other PC when trying to
    > play CNN videos: audio, but no video.
    >
    > The short story is that the livna mplayer packages do not install
    > the WMV codecs you need, specifically, the wmv9dmod.dll codec.
    >
    > There are a couple of ways to get the codecs you need and install
    > them to the right place.
    >
    > On the mplayer codecs page,
    >
    > http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html

    Tried this and installed per instructions from a previous post to this
    thread creating the sym links as outlined.

    >
    >
    > it can be confusing which pack to get. The easiest choice is the
    > "all" pack which contains all the codecs.

    I've tried both the "essential" and the "all" packs. Neither made any
    difference.

    >
    > The livna mplayer install creates the /usr/lib/win32 but it's empty
    > and that's the problem because that's where mplayer looks for the
    > WMV codecs. So you can either create a symbolic link as one of the
    > earlier posters described, or least copy the windows related
    > codecs, the ones that start with "wm" to /usr/lib/win32.
    >
    > A somewhat cleaner alternative is to grab the Xine windows codec
    > package which comes in a nice rpm,
    >
    > If you scroll down to the bottom of the Xine downloads page,
    >
    > http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases
    >
    > and click on the link cambuca...
    >
    > and scroll to the bottom of that page, you can get the w32codec
    > package
    >
    > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm
    >
    > If you are unfamiliar with installing rpms, you can install it like
    > this (as root):
    >
    > rpm -ivh w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm
    >
    > which will populate the /usr/lib/win32 directory with the codecs
    > you need.
    >
    > I installed the w32codec package on my other PC and then I could
    > see and hear the CNN video with Firefox and the mplayerplug-in.
    > Firefox still hangs after playing the video but at least you can
    > watch the video now.

    I had no success installing the codecs packages from livna when I
    tried. However, I *did* get the w32codec package from atrpms and that
    didn't help any. I tried downloading the package from the xine site.
    This was older than the atrpms package that I got, but I removed the
    newer package and installed the older package, just in case it would
    work. No luck.

    So I'm still at square 1 1/2. But thanks for trying! :-)

    Regards,

    Colleen

    >
    >
    > --Kenny
    > 

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