[MPlayer-users] mplayer wont play .wmv files

[Erik Kjær Pedersen]

Søndag 24 oktober 2004 16:27 skrev Liam Hofmann:
> I installed mplayer, and the mplayer mozilla plugin, and neither will play
> wmv files. i'm using fedora core 2.
>
> i also downloaded the list of essential codecs (including the wmv codec)
> but it still wont play. but i wasnt sure what folder to put them in,
> because in /usr/share/mplayer, the only folders were two fonts folders and
> one skins folder, in /usr/lib/mplayer theres only a folder for vidix, and
> when i tried to install mplayer-codec-essential or mplayer-codecs-win32 it
> told me there were no packages found by those names.
>
> i am very confused as to why this is happening. please help.

Put them in /usr/lib/win32