On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:23 -0300, Ariel Frozza wrote: > Hi Finley, > > Do you know if it's possible to use win codecs for mplayer on x86_64 > FC5? > How could i do in order to play wmv in x86_64? > > Regards. > Ariel > > On 4/7/06, Stanton Finley <stanfinley@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:26 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote: > > Stanton Finley <stanfinley@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > You could follow the directions in the Xine section of > > > > http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html It also > > > covers mplayer codec installation. > > > > May I ask why you suggest that I copy the codecs from > > /usr/local/lib/codecs to /usr/lib/win32, rather than > making /usr/lib/win32 > > a symbolic link to /usr/local/lib/codecs? > > > > Regards > > Ingemar > > > > Because in the past others have reported problems with either > Xine and / > or Mplayer having trouble accessing the codecs via a symbolic > link > rather than directly. It seems to be more reliable this way. > -- > Stanton Finley > http://stanton-finley.net/ > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Yes it is possible but you have to also run 32 bit version of Mplayer. (The codecs are 32 bit.) 32 bit Mplayer runs just fine on x86_64. Just use the instructions at http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html. -- Stanton Finley http://stanton-finley.net/
