On Monday 04 December 2006 19:54, Amadeus W. M. wrote: [...] >Get the windows codecs from the mplayer page: > >http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html > >Mplayer looks for them in /usr/lib/win32 or /usr/local/lib/win32. I put >them in /usr/local/lib/win32 because my /usr/local is a separate >partition, which I don't reformat upon reinstalling FC. I must have had >the win32 codecs since FC1. Are you referring to the essentials-$date package? Got it, did a mkdir for the win23 stuffs and copied the unpacked package to there. mplayer now plays wmv files. Thank you very much. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.