On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:16:44 -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > Hi All, > > I've tried to search the archives for similar posts, but the oldest > post that comes up in a search is Sept. 2004. I've sorted the > archives by thread and still didn't find anything related to my > problem. So, I'm posting and I apologize if this has been asked before. > > I am tearing my hair out by the roots and would prefer not to become > bald! I've installed Mplayer via yum. I removed it and installed via > source tarball. I removed the files from the tarball installation and > installed again vi yum. It doesn't matter which way I do it, I have > the same result. Mplayer works, it produces sound, but I get no > video, either with mplayer by itself or from within Firefox where I've > installed the mplayerplug-in. And yes, I've installed the fonts and > the codecs. > > I honestly don't know what the big deal is. I had mplayer working > just fine under FC3. I love Fedora, but with all the quirks that I've > struggled through with FC4, I almost wish I had never upgraded. > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? > > Regards, > > Colleen You got me worried! I tried mine on a .wmv file and it didn't work either, but it did work on an avi, so I figured it must be a missing win32 codec. And I looked at the mplayer output and there it was: 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 not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0) Failed to create DMO filter ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll. You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package. Go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll IMediaObject ERROR: 0x84ec5c9 could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0) Failed to create DMO filter ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvdmod.dll. You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package. Go to http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html VDecoder init failed :( Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! Do you get something like this? Clear, right? Get the codecs from mplayer.hu and put them in /usr/local/lib/win32. The README that comes with them says they should go to /usr/local/lib/codecs, but I guess the FC4 mplayer was compiled with win32.