Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer codecs

[Bruno Gola]

Holly Bostick wrote: Bruno Gola schreef: Holly Bostick wrote: Bruno Gola schreef: Hello guys, I was trying to play some *.wmv files in mplayer, but it seems i dont have the proper video codec (it complains about the video only), so, where should i put the codecs files ? Because i've already downloaded the codecs that i need... but i dont know where to put... can anyone help me? Thanks, Bruno Gola It might be easier if you just let Portage manage it: eix win32codecs * media-libs/win32codecs Available versions: 20050216 *~20050412 Installed: 20050216 Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ Description: Win32 binary codecs for video and audio playback support and then made sure mplayer knew about it: emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 -3dfx +3dnow +3dnowext +X +aac +aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl +cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug +dga +directfb +divx4linux -doc +dts +dv +dvb +dvd +dvdread +edl +encode +esd +fbcon +ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg +libcaca -lirc -live -lzo +mad +matroska -matrox +mmx +mmxext -mythtv +nas +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png +real +rtc +samba +sdl +sse +sse2 +svga +tga +theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 +vorbis +win32codecs +xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc 0 kB Of course, if you emerge mplayer +win32codecs, then you don't have to emerge the win32codecs package separately (unless you want it in your world file), as it will then be pulled in as a dependency. Holly Holly thanks for helping me, but ive already done this, i tried to merge this codecs package but, it stills not working... and when i try emerge -pv mplayer it stops at : [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 -3dfx +3dnow +3dnowext +X +aac +aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl +cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug +dga +directfb +divx4linux -doc +dts +dv +dvb +dvd +dvdread +edl +encode +esd +fbcon +ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg +libcaca -lirc -live -lzo +mad +matroska -matrox +mmx +mmxext -mythtv +nas +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png +real +rtc +samba +sdl +sse +sse2 +svga +tga +theora +truetype +v4l +v4l2 +vorbis I cant see the: +win32codecs +xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv +xvid +xvmc 0 kB And, when i try to: emerge mplayer +win32codecs it complains: br ~ # emerge mplayer +win32codecs Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "+win32codecs". Do you have anyidea ? thaks again, Bruno Gola The correct way would be to # echo 'media-video/mplayer win32codecs' >>/etc/portage/package.use (this will enable the USE flag for all compiles of mplayer, now and in the future) The much less correct way would be to # USE="win32codecs" emerge mplayer (this will compile mplayer with the USE flag set just for this compile, but if you upgrade, Portage will not remember the setting, and will upgrade without the flag) You can also simply # emerge win32codecs which will install the codecs, but it will also put the package in your world file, which you may not want, and will also not tell mplayer about it (because mplayer was compiled without support for the codecs)-- you would still need to re-emerge mplayer with the win32codecs USE flag enabled. What version of mplayer are you emerging? Perhaps the last stable (1.0_pre6-r4) doesn't support that USE flag, and you have to unmask an unstable version? Hope this helps Holly Thanks so much Holly, now with the USE flag it works... thanks again ;) Bruno