One more mplayer qyestion

[oldman]

John Wendel wrote:

> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:46:32PM -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday 30 September 2005 5:36 pm, akonstam at 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?
>
>
> This is not a codec problem, You need to have the mplayerplug-in 
> installed. Probably from dag or livna repositories.
>
> Here is what I have installed, mplayerplug-in-2.80-13.1.fc3.rf
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.fc4 is available and is much better, at least for FC4
also I had a lot of trouble with codecs until I discovered that mplayer 
looked for them in /usr/local/lib/win32 (note the local subdir)

Good luck!

Scott