Re: Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

From: Kenny Gow (kgfedora_at_swbell.net)
Date: 07/09/05

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    C.Beamer wrote:
    > 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! :-)
    >
    >
    I'm not giving up that easily. What I did to figure out what codec
    the CNN videos wanted was copy down that URL you see when you get the
    audio but no video, and run it from a command line like this,

    mplayer
    mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/nitn/2005/07/08/nitn.edition.12.cnn.ws.wmv

    If you run that command (it's one line) in a terminal, it will show
    you what codec it's trying to use and whether it finds it. Could you
    try running that and posting the output?

    Also, what's in your /usr/lib/win32 directory? From all you've
    described with the codecs, it ought to have the right codecs.

    --Kenny 

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