[lug] mplayer and WMV

[Dan Ferris]

Thanks for the tip, that's what I thought.

I just installed the 32 bit version of Fedora Core 4 and the performance 
is excellent.  Very happy with things.

No noticeable difference in performance either except for glxgears the 
64 bit drivers was giving about 2600 frames per second on my Geforce 
6600.  1800 or so on the 32 bit drivers.

Dan

Dan

Zan Lynx wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 10:05 -0600, Dan Ferris wrote:
>  
>
>>So,
>>
>>There I was on newegg and I accidently ended up with a new system with 
>>an AMD Athlon 4000.
>>
>>I installed the 64 bit version of Fedora Core 4.  It works all right.
>>
>>However...
>>
>>I cannot get the rpm version of mplayer to find it's codecs.  They are 
>>all extracted to /usr/local/lib/codecs.  I have symbolic links set up 
>>from there to /usr/local/lib/win32, /usr/local/lib64/codecs, 
>>/usr/local/lib64/win32, /usr/lib/win32, and /usr/lib/codecs, 
>>/usr/lib64/win32, and /usr/lib64/codecs.  And nothing.  No WMV files 
>>will play on any web site that I visit.
>>
>>Has anyone had this problem?  I am assuming right now that I have to 
>>install a 32 bit version of mplayer.
>>
>>If mplayer and flash would work, the system would be perfect (I'm not 
>>even going there on the flashplayer and how lame Macromedia is).
>>    
>>
>
>If you want WMV codecs and flashplayer, you'll need 32-bit mplayer and
>32-bit Firefox.  I'm surprised Fedora's Firefox isn't already 32-bit,
>since I thought they'd done that already.
>
>I'm not sure if Microsoft has released any 64-bit WMV codecs.  I have
>Windows x64 at home but I believe Media Player is still a 32-bit app.
>  
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