I realized the other day that I had an old version of w32codecs installed that was not the PLF version (it was numbered differently, such that Synaptic thought it was a newer version), so I went into Synaptic and forced the PLF version which then installed fine.
But then I was no longer able to play some of my video files (e.g. Windows Media 9) in Mplayer, Xine, etc. saying that it couldn't find wmvdmod.dll This was odd, because the PLF w32codecs does install it (in /usr/lib/codecs). So I did a little investigating in the readme (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/README) and it mentions "The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works)" Creating the codecs one with a symbolic link (sudo ln /usr/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/codecs --symbolic) didn't do anything, but making the win32 one (sudo ln /usr/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 --symbolic) allowed it to play no problem. So in Breezy the media players are configured to look in win32 for the codecs? (or is my version just weird? ;) If others are having this problem, can w32codecs be changed such that it creates the symbolic links automatically? CK _______________________________________________ Ubuntu-PLF_discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-plf_discuss
