[MPlayer-users] New installation is not picking up codecs

[Corey Hickey]

Brad McNeely wrote:
>  After running on SuSE 8.2 and 9.1 on a 32-bit kernel for a couple of years, I upgraded to SuSE 10 on a 64-bit kernel.  I downloaded the lastest mplayer build with cvs today but it doesn't seem to be picking up the codecs.  I installed them just like I did on the other platform.  Here's some into to help prime the well:

Yes, unfortunately, since the win32 codecs are 32-bit, they don't work 
with a 64-bit mplayer. You can still use a 32-bit mplayer with an 
athlon64 and a 64-bit kernel, but you won't get the performance benefit 
(small, but significant).

Personally, I maintain a 32-bit mplayer in a chroot for the odd occasion 
when I want to play something that requires a win32 codec, and use 
64-bit mplayer the rest of the time.

-Corey