[MPlayer-users] RE: Mencoder codec location

[Henry Garcia]

On 4/18/07, Terry Corbet <tcorbet at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Henry, thanks for your reply/amplification of John's help.
> 01. The 'home' directory in which I installed the mplayer binary
> has at this moment, and has from the start, had a directly
> subordinate directory called codecs.
> 02.  The initial attempt to convert the wmv file to avi nicely
> reported that I should go back and download the collection
> of codecs because, indeed, as downloaded, the codec sub-
> directory was empty.


You have to unzip the Essential Windows Codecs there.

03.  A comparision between the download of the most current
> codecs bundle and the bundle that is included as 'windows-
> essential' shows them to be quite comparable, but, in any case,
> for the specific .dll that mencoder is requesting, exactly the
> same version is available from either place, and is now, and
> has been right in the codecs directory of the mplayer 'home'.
> Yet, as the diagnostic messages seem to indicate, the program
> fails to find that sub-directory implicitly, and I guess that is why
> it next looks for whatever paths would be provided from a
> codec.conf file if I knew that syntax.
> 04.  Is there some other trouble-shooting output I could provide
> that would help us solve the problem?  Thank you.


Not really.  Unzip  the  Essential Windows Codecs into that codecs
directory. Until you do that, you more than likely will continue to have
problems:
http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20061022.zip

The directions on the web do say that you will have to do at least those 2
things or the software will not work.  You might notice that when you unzip
the above file you will have a windows-essential-200..... folder full of
dlls. Just copy all the dlls from that folder into the codecs folder. You
should be ok.

What's nice about the program is that you really don't have to register any
components: it just works by copying the files onto the drive. But you do
have to put the dlls into the codecs directory yourself. Somebody using a
MSI Windows Installer more than likely could have made a Windows Installer
(msi) which would put everything in the right places. Nevertheless, once
it's setup properly, you should find it be a superior program on the Windows
platform. If you really get stuck, I'll post an msi you can use.

But until you copy those codecs in that directory, I doubt you'll have any
success.



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