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Calum:
yes i have heard that mplayer docs are not the most userfriendly, which is one reason i have been keeping away from it.

for instance, i saw this on a list while searching:
   
quote:MPlayer site ( http://www.mplayerhq.hu ) provides a special
win32dll-codecs-package at
ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/w32codec-0.50.zip !

The dlls have be in the /usr/lib/win32 - directory (you have to create if it
doesn't exist). This must be done before compil

pkd_lives:
It is not so much that the documents are unuser-friendly, it is more that there is a lot of information to be gleaned and if you don't pay attention you can easily shoot yourself in the foot.

Now from my experience the avi codec is unnecessary, as I thought it was implemented with the codecs file now, but I could easily be wrong. I use the RPM files and so far have no problems with the basic stuff (it doesn't do DVDs at all well, and there are issues with processor speed etc, that I am looking into). If you install without the codecs in place then you will have to reinstall (compile - whatever you choose to do).

And in answer to your earlier question, it does basically all the proprietary M$ formats (better than M$ in fact), and the Apple QT formats, and open formats, and other closed formats, by using proven cracks of these codecs I think. How they do it is a question to be answered by the experts, but they do do it.

Calum:
ok, well sounds good. at the moment though i have mplayer installed from the rpms (i used apt for rpm in fact) and i have a bunch of codecs in tar.bz2 form. i know at least some of them need to be installed because i tried to play a .mov earlier and only got the sound. i will try and read their bumph, i expect it will need me to download source of mplayer and recompile. Of course i will need to read up a lot to find out how to compile all the codecs in. well, that's the price you pay i suppose.

thanks once more for the advice!

voidmain:
The win32 codecs don't get "compiled in". You just create a /usr/lib/win32 directory and stick them in there (after unpacking the archive that is).

UODU:
G'day Guys,


Prior to my brain injury I was a very good freefall cameraman... or is it person, who before digital non linea video editing became common, read an article that made me decide that I should get into computers ASAP; that was about 8 years ago.

I got to say all this Codex etc. is making my brain hurt... I'll keep an eye on this site/post and hope eventually it will all become clearer or more simplified for me in the meantime I'll continue to investigate my alternative approach... Apple.

Regards
Braindead

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