Re: One more mplayer qyestion

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:46:32PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Friday 30 September 2005 5:36 pm, akonstam trinity edu wrote:
> > So I went and installed:
> > mplayer-1.0.0-0.20050916.1.fc4.ut
> > mplayer-libs-1.0.0-0.20050916.1.fc4.ut
> >
> > And this is what happened. When I opened a movie trailer I got by
> > e-mail I got the sound but not the picture.
> >
> > Then I went to www.css.com and tried to play their video. An error
> > message that it could not find Windows media player.
> >
> > So what do I do now.?
> are the libs the same as the codecs? if not, you need to install those - I've 
> got it working and never installed any libs to my knowledge, though they may 
> have been installed as dependencies. Codecs are available at mplayer's site. 
> You need to get the 'all' package and put them in /usr/lib/win32
> 
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA
I am still confused. I downloaded all-20050412.tar which is supposed
to have the codecs. Untared this and put the files contained in
all-20050412 directory in /usr/lib/win32

>From www.cnn.com it still asks me for the Windows media player. Where
have I gone wrong?
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