> a) Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html > b) Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS > > then, > > c) install the codec, or > d) update the codecs.conf in your ~mythtv/.mplayer directory to it's in > sync with the one distributed with your version of MPlayer (i.e. cp > /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf ~mythtv/.mplayer ). If you update MPlayer and > do not update the user-specific configuration information, you don't get > the benefits of the newly supported codecs (among many other things).
You legend! I would never have figured this out. I got it working after many hours of aborted attempts thanks to you. For future reference, here's what I did: 1) Created a directory called win32 as root in /usr/lib/ 2) Downloaded all-20050412.tar.bz2 and win32codecs-20040703.tar.bz2 from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and untarred them into /usr/lib/win32/. This put the files in sub-dirs under /usr/lib/win32/ so I moved them out of those sub-dirs so that all the files are now sitting directly in /usr/lib/win32/. (Note that the codecs.html page said to install into /usr/local/lib/codecs/. This didn't work for me and as my error messages were about failing to find files in /usr/lib/win32/ I decided to put the files in there. I figured this is a distro specific location). 3) Now I can play BBC Radio 4 and the WAF is off the scale! BTW - I didn't have a /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf file so I didn't explore that option. Thanks again, Phill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
