[MPlayer-users] mplayer wont play .wmv files

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 24 October 2004 at 22:27, Liam Hofmann wrote:

> I installed mplayer, and the mplayer mozilla plugin, and neither will
> play wmv files. i'm using fedora core 2.

And how *exactly* did you install MPlayer? And which version?

> 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.

If you're installing from packages, just grab the official RPMs and install
those.

R.

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