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Hello,
I am running Mandriva 2008, KDE 3.4.7, Amarok 1.4.7 with Xine engine but it can not run Real Media and I could not find the Helix engine within Mandriva package manager and on Amarok's website.
Try using win32 codecs. These allow some multimedia apps to play proprietary formats. To install them, go to easyurpmi and setup the plf repositories. After that look for win32-codecs in the GUI package manager and select them for installation. Alternatively, do
Thank you reddaz for your help but I am afraid it did not work
as you instructed I installed w32codec from plf-nonfree mandriva mirror but still Real Media can not be played
This message appears in amarok
Code:
A problem occurred while loading a library or decoder.
xine parameters: cook.so
Distribution: Slackware 12 Kernel 2.6.24 - probably upgraded by now
Posts: 1,054
Rep:
hmm I am not sure if this will work for you , but on my comp I just put the mplayer binary codecs package from mplayerhq.hu to /usr/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib/codecs and then ALL of my music players started working fine. Maybe you could try that
note that I didn't install mplayer ..just downloaded the codecs and untarred them at that location,
hmm I am not sure if this will work for you , but on my comp I just put the mplayer binary codecs package from mplayerhq.hu to /usr/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib/codecs and then ALL of my music players started working fine. Maybe you could try that
note that I didn't install mplayer ..just downloaded the codecs and untarred them at that location,
Thank you duryodhan,
but I do not have codecs folder in both locations.
Thank you duryodhan,
but I do not have codecs folder in both locations.
What he meant was that you can download the codecs from mplayer.hu and copy them to /usr/lib/codecs and /usr/local/lib/codecs. If those two directories don't exist, then you create them on your own.
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