[MPlayer-users] Codec install

[Erik Kjær Pedersen]

Søndag 02. april 2006 17:06 skrev wolf-r1 at wispertel.net:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to desktop Linux so please bear with me. I am running off of a
> fresh install of FC5 with mplayer installed via Yum from the Livna
> repository. I downloaded the CODEC package off of the main Mplayer page. I
> installed those codecs to the locations dictated by the Readme.txt file
> within the codec package. Despite that some WMV files will not play. I get
> proper sound out of them but no video.
>
> At this point I cannot find any other information on where to place those
> files or how to tell Mplayer to use those codecs. Does anyone have any
> other information on this for me? All help is greatly appreciated.

I always use mplayer from the freshrpms repository

codecs should be in /usr/lib/win32

Erik