Author Topic: Mplayer Codecs? (Read 3470 times)

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?

jfs.w · « **Reply #1 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?

bkudria · « **Reply #2 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!

adf · « **Reply #3 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

Borealid · « **Reply #4 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.

adf · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2005, 02:45:10 am »

easier to transcode stuff for the z, then

bkudria · « **Reply #6 on:** September 30, 2005, 07:21:06 pm »

Aha. Ok, thanks!

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Author Topic: Mplayer Codecs? (Read 3470 times)