On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:15:07AM -0700, oldman wrote:
> akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:34:55AM -0700, oldman wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>This is not a codec problem, You need to have the mplayerplug-in
> >>>installed. Probably from dag or livna repositories.
> >>>
> >>>Here is what I have installed, mplayerplug-in-2.80-13.1.fc3.rf
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>mplayerplug-in-3.05-1.fc4 is available and is much better, at least for
> >>FC4
> >>also I had a lot of trouble with codecs until I discovered that mplayer
> >>looked for them in /usr/local/lib/win32 (note the local subdir)
> >>
> >>Good luck!
> >>
> >>Scott
> >>
> >>
> >That is not where the w32codec rpm puts them.
> >
> >
> That is the point. You need to have the codecs where mplayer looks
> for them, not where someone else puts them.
>
> Scott
I need to apologize. I made a soft link from /usr/local/lib/win32 to
/usr/lib/win32 and the CNN video now works. Strangely but it works.
Thanks for the tip.
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Take the time to read the README bundled in the all-20050412 package. It's all documented in there.
