I installed and have been using mplayer succcessfully, but decided I'd
like to be able to run DVDs, and so now installed the win32codecs
package. I was able to play one DVD, which is a copy of an old silent
film, but when I try a new DVD, I get:
libavformat file format detected.
LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
Exiting... (End of file)
So I did
$ mplayer -v
MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
...
get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading /home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf:
Can't open '/home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf':
No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
'/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
...
It turned out I have no codecs.conf file in either /etc/mplayer/ or in
~/.mplayer/ . Shouldn't mplayer have created the file? I was unable to
locate any instance of codecs.conf.
Should I have uninstalled mplayer and then reinstalled it after
installing win32codecs?
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Haines Brown, KB1GRM
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