On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:44:15PM +0100, RVM wrote: > This problem has been reported in the smplayer forum. > > It seems after the installation of Windows Media Player 11, mplayer has > problems playing files which need the wmsdmod.dll codec. There's audio but > there's no video. > > I have installed the mplayer binary codecs and wmsdmod.dll does exist. > > The problem can be reproduced for example with this file: > http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/MSS2/intro_windows.wmv > > (Attached log) > > I don't know, I guess mplayer tries to use the wmsdmod.dll in > \windows\system32, but now it fails. Is there any way to force > mplayer to use only the codecs from the mplayer\codecs directory? MPlayer will just use Windows' LoadLibraryA function. The set_path_env function is supposed to set things up so that the specified codec directory is preferred. However I can't see its "Setting PATH to ..." output in your log...