On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 23:25 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Just for grins, I located several wma files and mplayer plays them > just fine. There's some WMA files that mplayer will handle, and others that it will not. e.g. From http://www.theatreorgans.com/walnuthill/eugenehayek.htm download http://www.theatreorgans.com/walnuthill/Hayek_Five_Foot_Two.wma And it wouldn't play, for me. Yet, lots of other WMA files from that page worked fine. It wanted to make use of wma9dmod.dll (which it can't find). I do have it in /usr/local/lib/codecs/wma9dmod.dll (which is supposed to be one of the places that it will look). If you find it won't play a file, try playing from the command line to see what errors are produced, then seeing if you can give it a helping hand. Perhaps by symlinking from the codec directory to one or two other places players look by default. Here's three locations that I know about: /usr/lib/codecs/ /usr/local/lib/codecs/ /usr/local/lib/win32/ Seeing as I've got mine in /usr/local/lib/codecs/, something like the following might do the trick for mplayer (it does for me), and for other programs that look for codecs in one or more of those places: # remove *my* empty directory, then replace with link to one with codecs rmdir /usr/lib/codecs ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs # remove *my* empty directory, then replace with link to one with codecs rmdir /usr/local/lib/win32 ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 As I recall, I installed my extra codecs from the mplayer codec tarball from the mplayer website, according to their instructions. Mine weren't installed from an RPM. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
