On 5/15/07, Jorge Fábregas
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 4:06 pm, James Knott wrote:
Are you certain of that? I'm not at home at the moment, so I can't verify, but I'm certain 64 bit Mplayer works for me.
Yes, I'm pretty sure abou tit. I have everything installed, configured (spent about 2 days setting up everything) and then I couldn't play any windows-media-video anywhere...I did my Google search and it turns out Mplayer(64-bit) won't load 32-bit win codecs... For the rest of the codecs you may have no problem with mplayer...It's just those win32 codecs the problem... Check these:
You need to install 32bit mplayer, and if you are using 64bit firefox, you need the 32bit mplayer plugin (not the 64 bit one) and use nspluginwrapper (http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/) so FF uses the 32bit mplayer. Same for flash (only 32bit available). I do not have 64 bit 10.2, only 10.0, so I use the 64 bit browser. I think I read that in 10.2 by default you get the 32 bit browser, so you will not need to use the wrapper anyway. But for sure the mplayer need to be the 32 bit one in order to play wmv files. Even then the results will vary, the codecs have not been changed for a long time, newer versions of wmv exists, I have problems playing some of these videos even on 32 bit machine. So, I just stopped to watch content in wmv, as I do not want to tolerate content providers who do the "wrong" stuff :) -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap.