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after abandoning firefox 2.0 because i couldn't get mplayer to play embedded video, i switched back to ff 1..5.0.7. now i can play video but there is no sound. specifically i was trying to play the trailers from the apple quicktime website. i used easyurpmi to add plf free and non free sources and have already installed win32 codec. i have also downloaded the essential-20061022.tar.bz2 package but do not know what to do with it. according to the readme i am suppose to:

 

Put the files contained in this archive in a directory where MPlayer will find

them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ ($prefix/lib/codecs/) if

you are compiling from source, but you can change that value by passing the

'--with-codecsdir' option to './configure'.

 

If you use a prebuilt MPlayer package it will most likely be /usr/lib/codecs,

see the documentation of your package for details.

 

In the past /usr/local/lib/win32 or /usr/lib/win32 was the default directory,

some packages as well as a few other Unix players like xine and avifile still

use it, refer to their documentation for further details.

 

could someone please advice?

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On my Mandriva 2005 system, I downloaded the codecs in: all-20050412.tar.bz2 and inserted them in both /usr/local/lib/codecs/ and /usr/local/lib/win32/. This is not the best solution. I should have inserted the codecs in one directory and created a link to the other directory.

 

 

thanks for the reply. honestly i have gone back to ubuntu where the howtos are easier to follow for this newbie.

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