I did this, and mplayer finally works! Thanks Bryan. I would like to share
some additions to your instructions.
The links are almost good; the latest version of Mplayer is 9.0rc4 and it is
available in the MPlayer/releases directory of the ftp site listed. I would
also suggest downloading the quicktime codec
(http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/) for movie trailers. Just
put them in the same directory where you put the win32 codecs. If you want to
run gmplayer (the default gui) you will also need to download a skin. There
is a list of them at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design5/dload.html. You
will need to put the skins into your /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/ directory
after you have mplayer compiled and installed.
Now to use all this stuff, mplayer must be compiled with the correct options.
You set the compile options by running the ./configure script. These are the
options I passed to configure: ./configure
--with-win32libdir=/usr/share/w32codec-0.90 --enable-gui --enable-qtx-codecs
--with-win32libdir sets the win32 codecs libraries to the specified directory
--enable-gui compiles the binary for gmplayer
--enable-qtx-codecs tells mplayer to use the qt codecs that you downloaded
and will place in the win32libdir along with the windows codecs after you
have mplayer installed.
To use mplayer as a browser plugin you still need to run the mplayerpug-in as
explained at the top of this thread.
I did have one problem. I can view quicktime movies now without any
problem--they look and sound great. But though the audio on Windows Media
player format streaming media is fine, the video is really messed up. I only
tried files from www.lds.org and www.providentliving.org. Has anyone else had
a similiar experience? Any suggestions? Could I have downloaded corrupted
codecs? To install new win32 codecs can I just drop them into my current
win32codec directory (after erasing the current occupants), or do I need to
recompile?
Thanks for your help.
Richard
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 15:01, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> I don't know if everyone who distributes mplayer distributes it with the
> windows media codecs. I compiled it from source a while back following
>
> these instructions (coutesy Micheal Halcrow a while back on the list):
> > wget http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2
> > wget http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec.tar.bz2
> > tar xjvf w32codec.tar.bz2
> > mv w32codec-0.90 /usr/share
> > tar xjvf MPlayer-0,90pre8.tar.bz2
> > cd MPlayer-0.90pre8
> > ./configure --with-win32libdir=/usr/share/w32codec-0.90
> > make
> > su
> > (enter root password)
> > make install
> > (exit)
>
> I don't know if these links are still good or what, but that is how I
> was able to watch windows media in linux.
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