On 7/9/05, C.Beamer <cbeamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kenny Gow wrote: > > > C.Beamer wrote: > > > >> Kenny Gow wrote: > >> 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! :-) > >> > >> > > I'm not giving up that easily. What I did to figure out what codec > > the CNN videos wanted was copy down that URL you see when you get the > > audio but no video, and run it from a command line like this, > > > > mplayer > > mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/nitn/2005/07/08/nitn.edition.12.cnn.ws.wmv > > > > > > If you run that command (it's one line) in a terminal, it will show > > you what codec it's trying to use and whether it finds it. Could you > > try running that and posting the output? > > > > Also, what's in your /usr/lib/win32 directory? From all you've > > described with the codecs, it ought to have the right codecs. > > Okay, here we go: > > #1 > > I ran your command from above with the appropriate substitution for the > url. I did this as 'root' and the output is as displayed below. I also > ran it as user "colleen", but the output was a bunch of garbage - it > said that mplayer couldn't be found and mplayer (the executable is > definitely in my path. Anyway, the output as 'root': > > mplayer [snip] > #2 A bit of further information. Like I said, if I open a wmv file > from within media player, it works. However, the only way it works is > with the following settings: > > audio: aRts > > video: X11, gl, gl2 > > Any of the above settings for video work, if I use any other setting for > video from within Mplayer, I get sound, but no video. > > However, even when I do get video to display (i.e. my video setting is > gl2, for example, the video plays in Mplayer, but this message displays: > > "ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec " > > In response to your final question, /usr/lib/win32 contains the sym link > as follows: > > codecs -> /usr/local/lib/codecs > Your symbolic link is wrong. Delete the /usr/lib/win32 directory and relink as follows: # rm -rf /usr/lib/win32 # ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32 > And there *is* a 'wmvdmod.dll' and a 'wmv9dmod.dll' file in > /usr/local/lib/codecs. > > Regards, > > Colleen
