this is bizare.

i've installed 2 servers at the same time.

each one on CentOS 5.2. ... One 2 x DualCore 3.2 Ghz 16 Gigs/Ram and one tiny celeron 2.4 with a gig of ram. (small one is a dev, big = production)

every software were install the same but here is the problem

one of the server (production one!) got a ffmpeg problem

i've installed it with the mencoder essantials binary codecs (think i've got 20071017, i know it was last of 2007)

wont encode wmv's can't read thems! wmv's, wma's... all windows media wont work.... and sometimes (only sometimes!) wont make thumbnails of divx or xvid!

the small one work with them like a charm, but the beast dont want to...

so i've got to ask... what the true working installation procedures of ffmpeg (last build) with essantials, that will work with most codecs we'll found out there ON CentOS 5.2??

btw, it's for an install of PHPMotion.

so... how ?
untar essentials at /usr/lib/win32 ?
svn ffmpeg... ?
./configure --with-what?
make && make install

Hi there Bud.

Hardware specifications like Graphics or is it a 32 or 64 bit machine could help. Maybe you have skiped some codecs?

Try typing that into console window in both of them

rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n > installedstuff.txt

and in your /home/user directory you will find nicely formated text files with all the repos installed.

Compare those two files. Below is link to how to do that.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?o...1618#msg391618

Try starting the player via konsole on the production machine (for example gmplayer typed into konsole window and accepted with enter will start mplayer in gui mode) and then try playing any of the not working files. In the console you should see the output of the error. Google that then and see what the story is .

In PCLOS MiniMe 2008 that I am using there were two symlinks missing from /usr/lib/ and even when I had windows-codecs-all pack installed it wouldnt play real player files till I have created them.

I hope I have helped.

Andy