On 7/7/05, C.Beamer <cbeamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for trying. First, I'm just a user. I wouldn't no where to look > for mplayer output. Second, when I removed the mplayer installation > that I did using yum, I installed everything from source that I > downloaded from the Mplayer site, including the codecs. I had the same > problem, no matter which way I installed. Third, I did try puting the > codes in /usr/local/lib/win32/ but that didn't work either. > So, essentially, I'm still butting my head against a brick wall. > However, thanks for the suggestion - you never know, it might have been > the one that worked! It just wasn't this time. :-) OK -- installing from source was probably unnecessary and will probably end up causing you more grief. I'd suggest backing out the install from source. I don't know if mplayer's makefile has an 'uninstall' clause, if it does, that's the easiest thing to do. If it doesn't, hopefully it installed itself in /usr/local and you can just clean it out of there. Or just leave it, it probably won't affect anything. OK, so now you have a clean system without mplayer. Add the livna repo -- that's probably the easiest place to get mplayer from. Install mplayer, mplayer-fonts, mplayer-gui, and mplayerplug-in. You can skip the gui or the plugin packages if you don't need them. Once they're installed, do the following: $ cd ~ $ mkdir .mplayer $ cat >> .mplayer/config vo=xv ao=alsa ^D I.e., create the file ~/.mplayer/config with the two lines as above. The "^D" is CTRL-D and will quit cat and close the file. Next is the codecs. Download the codecs archive file from the MPlayer website and extract it into /usr/local/lib/codecs. Make symlinks to this directory at /usr/lib, /usr/lib/win32, and /usr/local/lib/win32: $ ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib $ ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32 $ ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 (the last two probably aren't necessary, but what the heck?) Now, after all that, if mplayer isn't working, I'm sorry. :-) -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
