Re: Need help with mPlayer

On Thursday 13 September 2007 01:10, Art wrote:
Hi Nigel Things are going good.
Hay where can I find the windows codecs package.
THANKS FOR THE HELP.
Art.

The w32codecs package isn't on the Livna list for Fedora 7 (i386), but
installing the ffmpeg package should do.

Just do a yum install ffmpeg

That will pull in the ffmpeg-libs package as well.

Hoping that works.

Nigel.

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:06 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 17:03, Art wrote:
Hi I need some help setting up the mPlayer to play DVD's. I can bring
it up to the play list. On the list it dose not show the DVD. How do I
get to my DVD drive and what plugins do I need to install.
Thanks
Art Giles

Hi Art. Hows it going?

Where did you get Mplayer from? Freshrpms, or Livna? You don't only need
Mplayer, but also the w32codecs package.

Make sure that Mplayer is setup to access your DVD drive.

For example I have 3 optical drives (cdrom, cdwriter, and dvdrom) on one
of my machines. When you open Mplayer, at the extreme left of the window
with the controls on it there is a button. Click on that, which will
bring up the preferences window. Click on "misc", and it will show you
where it's trying to access your DVD rom drive from. In my case it's
pointing to /dev/cdrom2, but I have 3 drives, and that is the correct one
for the DVD rom drive.

On my other machine I have a combination drive (cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom).
If I look at /dev in my file manager I have 3 entries, cdrom1, cdrw1, and
dvd1. All these are links pointing to the block device hdd.

You need to make sure that what is there in Mplayers preferences > misc
is pointing to the correct link in /dev for the DVD device.

An alternative for playing DVD's is the vlc package, but you will also
need to install the libdvdcss package as well ( that may be libdvdcss2),
and may well still need to check that it's accessing your drive correctly
in /dev.

All the best, and may the force be with you.

Nigel.

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