On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 16:58, Neil Loffhagen wrote: > I appreciate all the help on this. I've downloaded the windows codecs > and put them in /usr/local/win32 as mentioned, but it still isn't > working. My apologies - the codecs go int /usr/local/lib/win32. I just checked my installation to see where I put them. > I've tried opening the media file straight from Mozilla and also by > using the open url in mplayer. The Mozilla way asks what application I > want to open the file with. Have tried telling it to use mplayer, but > it just downloads a small asx file and then does no more. When I try > the open url in mplayer it comes up with "Sorry, this file format is not > recognized/supported. If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, > please contact the author". I've already contacted the author and there > seems no immediate chance of the files being made available in another > format. I can't remember, but I think I have the same problem in Mozilla. I usually just download the file to my hard drive. I've actually never tried using Windows streaming media under Linux except RealPlayer files. I'll have to give that a try and see what happens. > Then I went back to the mplayer site and found that the codecs need to > be in place before installing mplayer. So I tried to deinstall using > rpm -erase mplayer... which seemed to work, but when I then tried to run > the install it said it could not because it was already installed. So > the next question is how can I get the system to allow me to reinstall? Hmmmm.... can't remember if I installed the codecs first or not, although somehow I don't think so because I don't think I even found the codecs until after I had installed mplayer, but my memory on this doesn't serve well! You can remove the rpms by going to System Settings/Packages and removing it with that tool. I've often found that rpm -e doesn't remove the files from the rpm database, so rpm still thinks a program is installed even after you've removed it. You can also force a reinstall by using rpm -i --force. > I've looked around, but obviously not in the right places for hints on > doing this. I hope someone will be patient with me and poit me in the > right direction. > > Thanks again, > I think if you put the codecs in the right place, you'll be okay. Good luck - you'll love the results once you get it working. Don -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
