Mplayer codecs

odd · 05-17-2004, 12:35 PM

Hi I'm trying to install some mplayer codecs to play .ram files. Does anyone know where I place these? Thanks for any advice.

Hammett · 05-17-2004, 01:15 PM

have you tried mplayer's homepage? They have 2 codec packs there. You have to unpack them in /usr/lib/win32 folder.

320mb · 05-17-2004, 01:34 PM

the codecs pack "HAS" to be compiled into mplayer itself............
Read the README file.......................it explains everything

Hammett · 05-17-2004, 01:51 PM

Not if you use rpm based mplayer install. I installed mplayer with synaptic and then i added the codecs manually and works perfectly.
Otherwise, you first have to install the codecs and then run ./configure script in mplayer for it to detect you have the codecs.

odd · 05-17-2004, 03:27 PM

I also installed from synaptic and am trying to 'manually add' them, thats why i asked where do i manually add them too?

Hammett · 05-17-2004, 04:58 PM

Yes, uncompress the tar.bz2 file to /usr/lib/win32

phiz · 05-18-2004, 01:19 AM

How come in some of the documentation it says to put them in /usr/local/lib/codecs does it check both folders??