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Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: bkudria on September 27, 2005, 10:07:46 pm
I have (finally) gotten mplayer and kino2 working, but I can only seem to play vanilla mpeg files...even though I downloaded the codec pack from mplayerhq.hu (was this a good or bad idea)?  When I try to play a wmv file, it complains about the codec (wmv9mod something something) What should i do?
Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: jfs.w on September 27, 2005, 10:18:40 pm
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I have (finally) gotten mplayer and kino2 working, but I can only seem to play vanilla mpeg files...even though I downloaded the codec pack from mplayerhq.hu (was this a good or bad idea)?  When I try to play a wmv file, it complains about the codec (wmv9mod something something) What should i do?
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i think the codecs are meant for i386 machines, but can someone confirm this?
Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: bkudria on September 28, 2005, 06:24:31 pm
That was my suspicion too...but everyone else seems to be able to play movies fine, I extensively searched the forums before asking this.  I would like to know where everyone else is getting their codecs!
Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: adf on September 28, 2005, 08:55:27 pm
they have always been part of mplayer afaik. never had to install a codec on my z
Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: Borealid on September 28, 2005, 10:04:39 pm
Mplayer plays most of its files through the ffmpeg library, which is normally built with it.

WMV9, however, requires a Windows-only codec DLL.  You won't be able to get that to work on your ARM processor without using qemu, bochs, or the like.
Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: adf on September 29, 2005, 02:45:10 am
easier to transcode stuff for the z, then
Title: Mplayer Codecs?
Post by: bkudria on September 30, 2005, 07:21:06 pm
Aha. Ok, thanks!