Re: Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer
From: Kam Leo (kam.leo_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/09/05
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Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 12:17:36 -0700 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On 7/9/05, C.Beamer <cbeamer@interlynx.net> wrote:
> Kenny Gow wrote:
>
> > C.Beamer wrote:
> >
> >> Kenny Gow wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Okay, here we go:
>
> #1
>
> I ran your command from above with the appropriate substitution for the
> url. I did this as 'root' and the output is as displayed below. I also
> ran it as user "colleen", but the output was a bunch of garbage - it
> said that mplayer couldn't be found and mplayer (the executable is
> definitely in my path. Anyway, the output as 'root':
>
> mplayer
[snip]
> #2 A bit of further information. Like I said, if I open a wmv file
> from within media player, it works. However, the only way it works is
> with the following settings:
>
> audio: aRts
>
> video: X11, gl, gl2
>
> Any of the above settings for video work, if I use any other setting for
> video from within Mplayer, I get sound, but no video.
>
> However, even when I do get video to display (i.e. my video setting is
> gl2, for example, the video plays in Mplayer, but this message displays:
>
> "ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec "
>
> In response to your final question, /usr/lib/win32 contains the sym link
> as follows:
>
> codecs -> /usr/local/lib/codecs
>
Your symbolic link is wrong. Delete the /usr/lib/win32 directory and
relink as follows:
# rm -rf /usr/lib/win32
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32
> And there *is* a 'wmvdmod.dll' and a 'wmv9dmod.dll' file in
> /usr/local/lib/codecs.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
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