Kenny Gow wrote: > Anyway, a bit of digging around revealed that the CNN video wants > to use the WMV 9 codec. And, I just happened to have another PC > that I put FC4 on and installed mplayer from livna as you did. I > got the same problem as you did on this other PC when trying to > play CNN videos: audio, but no video. > > The short story is that the livna mplayer packages do not install > the WMV codecs you need, specifically, the wmv9dmod.dll codec. > > There are a couple of ways to get the codecs you need and install > them to the right place. > > On the mplayer codecs page, > > http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html Tried this and installed per instructions from a previous post to this thread creating the sym links as outlined. > > > it can be confusing which pack to get. The easiest choice is the > "all" pack which contains all the codecs. I've tried both the "essential" and the "all" packs. Neither made any difference. > > The livna mplayer install creates the /usr/lib/win32 but it's empty > and that's the problem because that's where mplayer looks for the > WMV codecs. So you can either create a symbolic link as one of the > earlier posters described, or least copy the windows related > codecs, the ones that start with "wm" to /usr/lib/win32. > > A somewhat cleaner alternative is to grab the Xine windows codec > package which comes in a nice rpm, > > If you scroll down to the bottom of the Xine downloads page, > > http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases > > and click on the link cambuca... > > and scroll to the bottom of that page, you can get the w32codec > package > > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm > > If you are unfamiliar with installing rpms, you can install it like > this (as root): > > rpm -ivh w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm > > which will populate the /usr/lib/win32 directory with the codecs > you need. > > I installed the w32codec package on my other PC and then I could > see and hear the CNN video with Firefox and the mplayerplug-in. > Firefox still hangs after playing the video but at least you can > watch the video now. I had no success installing the codecs packages from livna when I tried. However, I *did* get the w32codec package from atrpms and that didn't help any. I tried downloading the package from the xine site. This was older than the atrpms package that I got, but I removed the newer package and installed the older package, just in case it would work. No luck. So I'm still at square 1 1/2. But thanks for trying! :-) Regards, Colleen > > > --Kenny >
