[Gllug] MPlayer plugin problem

[Richard Turner]

On Wednesday 30 Apr 2003 5:59 am, Walid Shaari put fingers to keys and typed:
> On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 23:34, Richard Turner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed the RH9 MPlayer Plugin RPM and it appears to be
> > working for most file types.  I've not done thorough tests, but I have
> > noticed that it's not working for ASF and WMV files - instead of handing
> > the URL off to MPlayer, Mozilla displays a load of garbage.
> >
> > I know that it's not MPlayer misbehaving because if I download the file
> > and open it with MPlayer it plays fine.  Mozilla's about:plugins shows
> > that mplayer-plugin support for these files types is present and enabled.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas about how I can solve this?
>
> Are you able to play asf/wmv files not using the plugin? if not then you
> need to install the win32 codecs files, you can download them from the
> mplayer site :
>
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/win32codecs.tar.bz2
>
> hth
>
> Walid

I've not tried just passing the URL to mplayer manually to play them, but I 
have tried downloading them and playing thme from the HDD - that runs fine.
-- 
Richard Turner

"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."


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