I tried all players in Mandrake, none worked?
any solutions?



Thanks

Go to www.mplayerhq.hu - download mplayer and also the codecs (if you want to run it in a gui, get the fonts and skins files). Install and you will be able to play the .wmv files.

I downloaded the codec from mplayer's site, a tar.bz2 file
after i extract it, it has these files inside:

atrc.so.6.0 drv4.so.6.0 QuickTimeEssentials.qtx vid_3ivX.xa
cook.so.6.0 dspr.so.6.0 QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx wma9dmod.dll
ddnt.so.6.0 ir32_32.dll QuickTime.qts wmadmod.dll
dnet.so.6.0 ir41_32.dll sipr.so.6.0 wmspdmod.dll
drv2.so.6.0 ir50_32.dll tokf.so.6.0 wmv9dmod.dll
drv3.so.6.0 qtmlClient.dll tokr.so.6.0 wmvdmod.dll

where shall I put them to add the codec in order to play *.rm and *.wmv with my mplayer?

Did you also download and install Mplayer?

Or if you have a favourite player, track down it's codecs folder and copy the codecs in there.

i installed mplayer, but i can not find where shall i put these codecs.

do I have to update codecs.conf as well?

/usr/lib/win32 is the standard dir...

after copy wmv9mod.dll and wmvdmod.dll to /usr/lib/win32, it works fine now
Thank you!!!

Another question, when i play .wmv by Mplayer, it says:

MPlayer 0.91-3.3.1 (C) 2000-2003 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel (Family: 8, Stepping: 7)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection

How can I recompile Mplayer??

Don't worry :-)
Mplayer answer me the same...but it always worked fine when I use it, so I remember an old proverb : "if it works, don't change nothing !".

AMEN!

It will work as is, but when you'd compile mplayer, you could get some speed advantage if you compile with the given flags.

I agree with the other guys. if it aint broke, DON`T fix it.!