Help me with Mplayer.
I used YUM to install MPlayer on Fedora Core 3 Linux and it seems to be working right now but I need to install the "essential codec pack" to support .wmv and some other file extensions.
Here is the download location Link I don't exactly know where MPlayer is installed so I tried this command... Code:
[carlos@server ~]$ whereis mplayer |
The codecs in mplayer are added only on compilation time. By using yum and installing a pre-compiled version of mplayer you cannot add codecs. Use those instruction and compile mplayer by yourself:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mplayer-fedora.shtml You need the development packages to compile something. If you haven't done a full installation or haven't picked them manually when selecting packages (gcc, make etc) in fedora instalation you don't have them. Use the add/remove packages utility to install the development packages from the cd, or use yum (i've never done it through yum). Another option is to use Xine. If xine is installed (i think it is by default) then add the mplayer codecs, after u uncompress then in /usr/lib/win32. You may need to use the options tab in xine to specify the path or alter your .xine/config file which is created the fist time you execute xine, and uncomment the bold line: # path to Win32 codecs # string, default: /usr/lib/win32 #decoder.external.win32_codecs_path:/usr/lib/win32 but this path is the default xine win32 path. But in mplayer you cannot do that after you compile it. *EDIT* I would advise you to use the all codecs package from mplayers download page: http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html |
once you put the codecs in /usr/lib/win32 ( you'll probably have to create that directory), xine based players will play anything that mplayer will. I personally believe mplayer is a more powerful program, but you have to be willing to read all of the documentation ( there is alot of it on their site) and spend the time to set it up how you want. if you just want to play movies/music ( including wmv's and such) go with a xine based player after you extract the codecs to /usr/lib/win32.
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if that dir doesnt work
try /usr/local/lib/win32/ or usr/local/lib/codec/ /usr/local/lib/win32/ was the default for my compile without flags i think usr/local/lib/codec/ was for an older ver of mplayer |
I just installed mplayer on my machine, i created the codecs dir and pasted all the codecs in there compiled the mplayer and all works well on command line, u need to compile with a gui command to enable gui support. Tip is to pasted codecs in both recommended codecs dir so that mplayer will defo see one of the dir and delete the one it never uses later
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So from what I understand from "Perfect Circle's" post is that since I installed a pre-compiled version of Mplayer via YUM, I am not able to install the directory or the codecs...?
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