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Distribution: Dabble, but latest used are Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.4.1
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Xine - Totem -- where to extract win32 codecs to?
Running Mandriva 2006 Free (2.6.19 kernel) on a P4 CPU.
I downloaded and extracted both the "essential" RPM for mplayer and the win32 codecs RPM into /usr/local/lib and /user/local/lib/codec (a duplication, I know, but I can't figure out precisely where they go), and xine and xine-totem both cannot play certain movies, telling me I don't have the proper plug-ins for windows media player 9. What am I missing?
By rights, if they were .rpms, all you should need to do is issue commands:
rpm -ivh win32-codecs-1.7-2plf.i586.rpm
And you'll know if there are any other packages needed as dependencies, and it will be properly installed.
If you have your repositories set up, all you need to do is open up the GUI software installer and select the packages, they are from plf-free I believe, and hit install. Urpmi will take care of everything including dependencies. Or from a terminal use commands similar to this:
Distribution: Mepis and Fedora, also Mandrake and SuSE PC-BSD Mint Solaris 11 express
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I just copied the plugins and extracted them into the /usr/lib/win32 directory and they work just fine. They haven't caused any errors. In fact, I'm playing Youtube in another tab right now.
Distribution: Dabble, but latest used are Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.4.1
Posts: 425
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Originally Posted by Junior Hacker
By rights, if they were .rpms, all you should need to do is issue commands:
rpm -ivh win32-codecs-1.7-2plf.i586.rpm
And you'll know if there are any other packages needed as dependencies, and it will be properly installed.
If you have your repositories set up, all you need to do is open up the GUI software installer and select the packages, they are from plf-free I believe, and hit install. Urpmi will take care of everything including dependencies. Or from a terminal use commands similar to this:
urpmi win32-codecs
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I've downloaded the RPMs and used both the archive extract gui and command line rpm -ivh to extract. No dice. Most files I can play, but some give me an error of missing codec.
That computer cannot be hooked up to the internet, so Urpmi, yum, apt-get and all that good stuff are not options.
If you are using KDE, in konqueror file manager navigate to the .rpm file you want to install.
ALT+Click the .rpm file
Click Open with ... in the pop out menu
ClickSoftware Installer in the sub-menu
Select Install when offered the option to install or save the file.
Enter your root password when requested
When the package is installed, click the Done button.
Any dependencies will be resolved from the available media sources. If the required packages are not included in the existing media sources, you can download and install them first. If two or more packages are mutually dependent, you can highlight each package (CTRL+Click), then ALT+Click one of them as above. All highlighted packages will be installed together, so the apparent dependency paradox will be resolved.
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