On December 2, 2004 11:25 am, Aaron Seigo wrote: > On December 1, 2004 22:17, Nick W wrote: > > I've been googling for over an hour to no avail. I did find a site which > > said to download the codec pack from mplayerhq and put them > > in /usr/local/lib/win32. I tried /usr/local/lib/codec as well. Nothing. > > > > Does anyone know where to put them? I installed the win32 codec RPM, > > nothing. > > interesting note about mplayer and codecs like wmv: it only builds in > support for the codecs it sees at compile time. (silly, no?) so if you use > mplayer and it was built w/out certain codecs around at compile time, it > won't be able to support them even if you later install the codecs. > > this is why i always build mplayer from source =(
this appears to have been the problem. I grabbed the latest xine-lib from sourceforge, it's working. Thanks everyone. > > playing media files on linux will always be a hack and a pain (even though > it works really well once set up these days) until more distros do what > Linspire or gentoo have done (both have done different things to the same > general end) what does Linspire do? > > (i don't know if any of the above applies to xine, as i don't use xine > much) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
