Re: Linux killer!

From: Claude Jones (claude_jones_at_levitjames.com)
Date: 10/31/05

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:50:58 -0500

    On Sun October 30 2005 11:29 am, oldman wrote:
    > According to the Mplayer readme at /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0/README
    >
    > _______________________________
    >
    > STEP2: Installing Binary Codecs
    > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    >
    > MPlayer and libavcodec have builtin support for the most common audio
    > and video
    > formats, but some formats require external codecs. Examples include
    > Real, Indeo
    > and QuickTime audio formats. Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9
    > exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary. This step is not
    > mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of
    > formats. Please note that most codecs only work on Intel x86 compatible
    > PCs.
    >
    > Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where
    > MPlayer will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it
    > used to be /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works)

    I've read that readme a half dozen times. In my case, I never got mplayer to
    work using those instrux. Somewhere along the way, packages got produced that
    changed the directory structure, and the docs didn't get changed to reflect
    that. As I stated previously, I've used the mplayer fc4 rpms on many
    installations, and the Debian equivalents on many others, and have always
    placed the codecs in /usr/lib/win32 - at least for the packages I've been
    using, both CNN video and other AV works on all those installs. I've just
    rechecked the readme on my own installation - it has precisely the language
    you quote - but again, on my system, the named folder doesn't exist! My
    codecs are in /usr/lib/win32. 

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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
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