On Wed January 16 2008 06:22:15 Michael Hennebry wrote: > What is the magic formula for getting mplayer to play > the video portion of realmedia files? > My /usr/local/lib/win32 is a soft link to codecs, which contains > acelpdec.ax LCODCCMW2E.dll vid_3ivX.xa > alf2cd.acm lhacm.acm ViVD2.dll > aslcodec_dshow.dll lsvxdec.dll vivog723.acm > atrac3.acm m3jp2k32.dll voxmsdec.ax > atrc.so.6.0 mi-sc4.acm vp4vfw.dll > AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx msh261.drv vp6vfw.dll > BeHereiVideo.qtx msms001.vwp vp7vfw.dll > CLRVIDDC.DLL msscds32.ax vssh264core.dll > clrviddd.dll nsrt2432.acm vssh264dec.dll > cook.so qpeg32.dll vssh264.dll > CtWbJpg.DLL qtmlClient.dll vsshdsd.dll > DECVW_32.DLL QuickTimeEssentials.qtx vsslight.dll > drvc.so QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx vsswlt.dll > dspr.so.6.0 QuickTime.qts wma9dmod.dll > iac25_32.ax README wmadmod.dll > icmw_32.dll rt32dcmp.dll wmsdmod.dll > imc32.acm sipr.so.6.0 wmspdmod.dll > ir41_32.dll tokf.so.6.0 wmv9dmod.dll > ir50_32.dll tokr.so.6.0 wmvadvd.dll > ivvideo.dll tvqdec.dll wmvdmod.dll > jp2avi.dll VDODEC32.dll wnvwinx.dll > LCMW2.dll vdowave.drv wvc1dmod.dll > > Even on things it will play, e.g. wmv files, > it won't give me a control panel. > I'm running FC6. > > mplayer --version > MPlayer SVN-r23545 rpm.livna.org (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9) > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection. > Unknown option on the command line: --version > Error parsing option on the command line: --version > What your missing here are the realvideo codecs, $mplayer -vc help|grep realvid rv3040 realvid working Linux RealPlayer 10 RV30/40 decoder [drvc.so] rv3040win realvid working Win32 RealPlayer 10 RV30/40 decoder [drvc.dll] rv40 realvid working Linux RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder [drv4.so.6.0] rv40win realvid working Win32 RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder [drv43260.dll] rv40mac realvid working Mac OS X RealPlayer 9 RV40 decoder [drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc] rv30 realvid working Linux RealPlayer 8 RV30 decoder [drv3.so.6.0] rv30win realvid working Win32 RealPlayer 8 RV30 decoder [drv33260.dll] rv30mac realvid working Mac OS X RealPlayer 9 RV30 decoder [drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc] rv20 realvid working Linux RealPlayer 8 RV20 decoder [drv2.so.6.0] rv20winrp10 realvid working Win32 RealPlayer 10 RV20 decoder [drv2.dll] rv20win realvid working Win32 RealPlayer 8 RV20 decoder [drv23260.dll] rv20mac realvid working Mac OS X RealPlayer 9 RV20 decoder [drv2.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drv2] you can get them in one of the codec packs from the mplayer site. ...dex