andrew <andrew.david.45 at gmail.com> wrote in news:20091008212600.GA28730 at skamandros.andrews-corner.org: > Is it possible to play files encoded with lagarith video codec under > the svn MPlayer? I have been trying to open this file: > > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/lagarith/lagarith.avi > > with no success despite MPlayer claiming to be able to play them: > > andrew at skamandros~$ mplayer -vc help | grep lagarith > lagarith vfw working Lagarith Lossless Video Codec > [lagarith.dll] > > This codec is not part of the standard MPlayer codec pack and attempts > to use the codec manually from: > > http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html > > were a total failure. So can anybody else play these files, and let me > know how they did it? I tested successfully on a 32-bit Windows box with the manual-install Lagarith 32-bit DLL in my mplayer codecs folder. Are you using an MMX2 CPU as listed on the codec status table? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html Please post the messages you receive when trying to play the file.