Ben Steeves wrote: >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. > > Okay, I did all this and now at least when I click on the Mplayer icon that is on my Kmenu under the Sound and Video group, Mplayer opens and I can click the button to configure it. Also, Mplayer will play files that have been sent via attachment. Mplayer would not play these before, so we are moving forward. >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?) > > > I did all this and it solved the problem of playing files from withing mplayer. However, I still have an issue with playing stuff in Firefox. However, I'm pretty sure that I know what the issue is. The stuff that I'm trying to play (videos from cnn.com) are in wvm format and if I look at the available filetypes that are supported by plugins in Firefox, there is no wvm. Is this perhaps a problem with the mplayerplug-in file that was installed with yum from the "livna" repository? Thanks for the assistance on this and special thanks to Ben Steeves. Regards, Colleen
