On Sun October 30 2005 11:29 am, oldman wrote: > According to the Mplayer readme at /usr/share/doc/mplayer-1.0/README > > _______________________________ > > STEP2: Installing Binary Codecs > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > MPlayer and libavcodec have builtin support for the most common audio > and video > formats, but some formats require external codecs. Examples include > Real, Indeo > and QuickTime audio formats. Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9 > exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary. This step is not > mandatory, but recommended for getting MPlayer to play a broader range of > formats. Please note that most codecs only work on Intel x86 compatible > PCs. > > Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where > MPlayer will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it > used to be /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) I've read that readme a half dozen times. In my case, I never got mplayer to work using those instrux. Somewhere along the way, packages got produced that changed the directory structure, and the docs didn't get changed to reflect that. As I stated previously, I've used the mplayer fc4 rpms on many installations, and the Debian equivalents on many others, and have always placed the codecs in /usr/lib/win32 - at least for the packages I've been using, both CNN video and other AV works on all those installs. I've just rechecked the readme on my own installation - it has precisely the language you quote - but again, on my system, the named folder doesn't exist! My codecs are in /usr/lib/win32. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
