Mplayer Frustrations - Getting Closer

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Amadeus W. M. wrote:

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>>vo: X11 running at 1280x1024 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local
>>display)
>>Xv: could not grab port 69
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>>Could not find free Xvideo port - maybe another process is already using
>>it. Close all video applications, and try again. If that does not help,
>>see 'mplayer -vo help' for other (non-xv) video out drivers.
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>>Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs Win32 LoadLibrary failed
>>to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll,
>>/usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll IMediaObject ERROR: 0x84ec5c9  could
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>>In response to your final question, /usr/lib/win32 contains the sym link
>>as follows:
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>>codecs -> /usr/local/lib/codecs
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>No!! 
>As you can see, mplayer is not looking inside /usr/local/lib/win32/codecs/
>as you have it right now, but rather directly in /usr/local/lib/win32.
>That is, all dlls must be in /usr/local/lib/win32. Forget about symbolic
>links and all, just put the ..../codecs/* in .../win32 and it'll work.
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Okay, you're right.  This did work.  However, I could have sworn that I
had tried putting the codecs (i.e. the actual files) in
/usr/local/lib/win32/  before.

Regardless, it works now.

Thanks all for the help.

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