Latem Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Hello, I have MPlayer, Totem Movie Player and Xine installed on my computer. I tried playing a .rm file, and all of them complained about not having a codec. Totem was asking for "cook.so.6.0" and "drv3.so.6.0". The other ones didn't provide the specific file names just said something to the effect of "dont have a codec for that". Anyway, I dled the essential codec pack from MPlayer's site. In it there are 8 .so.6.0 and 1 .xa file, including the cook and drv file. There are also a bunch of Windows files (.dlls, .qtx and such). My question is what am I supose to do with those 9 files. Where am I suppose to copy them? I have tried coping all over the place in lib dirs and such, and nothing worked. I thought there was an rpm for the essential pack. I think I remember getting it some time ago when I was using RH8, but I am not sure if I remember correctly. I could be wrong. Any help is much appreciated. Latem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 urpmi plugger It defaults to Mozilla's plug in folder but if you use FireFox you can just copy the plug in files to FFs plugins folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 the easiest way i've found to get MPlayer working flawlessly is to go to Easy URPMI & set up PLF, contrib, & main sources. then use Mandrake Control Center->software installer & search for Mplayer. get all the PLF Mplayer apps. then search for codecs. get all the codecs from PLF & a few you'll find in contrib. it will all set up itself. you might have to manually choose your audio & video drivers in Mplayer preferrences, but via the above method Mplayer should be able to play any file type you throw at it. the following packages are what's needed....... mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins win32 codecs divx codecs xmms codecs there may be another one, i'm going from memory. basically, just get all the codecs packages that come up in the search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbob Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Chris is correct about that, I had a mess going until I tried setting it up via urpmi, then do the plugger install if you want to watch/listen to clips in your browser window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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