On 03/29/2010 10:14 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 02:14 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> On Monday 29 March 2010 21:11:21 Suvayu Ali wrote: >> >>> On Monday 29 March 2010 12:48 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> >>>> Third, it seems that you are running 64bit arch, which might present >>>> itself as a tad little problem, since the .dll file is 32bit and will >>>> not work in your environment. What you need to do is to >>>> >>> I think this is unnecesary. to run 32 bit codecs on a 64 bit machine >>> putiing them in /usr/lib/codecs should be enough. Similarly the 64 bit >>> codecs go into /usr/lib64/codecs >>> >>> >>>> $ ls /usr/lib/codecs/ |grep -cE 'dll|so' >>>> 82 >>>> $ ls /usr/lib64/codecs/ |grep -cE 'dll|so' >>>> 3 >>>> >> Well, as you can see, the list of codecs in the two directories is hardly >> equivalent. AFAIK, in general 32bit plugins don't usually interoperate well >> with 64bit apps (think firefox, nspluginwrapper, flash-plugin, etc.). As for >> mplayer, I remember that this didn't work before and was generally considered >> unfixable, so I guess today is still the same. >> >> But theory aside, I did an experiment --- downloaded one of the sample files >> from http://www.on2.com/index.php?617 , played no problem using mplayer.i686, >> while getting exactly the same error as the OP using mplayer.x86_64. In both >> cases all relevant codec files are in both /usr/lib/codecs/ and >> /usr/lib64/codecs/. >> >> I would really like to know about your setup if you are able to play any of >> those files using 64bmplayer -codecs-fileit mplayer. >> >> > You were right, I could only get audio even with `mplayer -codecs-file > /path/to/codec'. I tried the codec from my windows install with the same > result. However I think even the windows codec was 32-bit as the path > was %SYSTEM%/SysWOW64/vp7vfw.dll. > > This raises a question, is it possible to use the 32-bit binary codecs > if mplayer was compiled with the proper `./configure' options or > expecting something like that is completely unreasonable? If this is > possible a bugzilla with rpmfusion would do the trick. ;) > > >> Best, :-) >> Marko >> >> > The 32 bit mplayer worked like a charm With the vp7vfw.dll in usr/lib/codecs/ and 32 bit mplayer worked Weird but not complaining. 32 bit on a 64 bit machine Michael Miles -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
