[Novalug] Mplayer Plugin

[Dan Arico]

On Mon April 16 2007 9:31 pm, gregory pryzby wrote:
> w32-codecs (I think that is what it is called).
>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:24:19PM -0400, Dan Arico wrote:
> > I'm trying to play videos from chesslecture.com on my OpenSUSE 10.2
> > machine. It works on my 9.3 machine (mplayer and mplayer-plugin v
> > 3.17), but not on 10.2 (mplayer and mplayer-plugin 3.40).
> >
> > Like a lot of this stuff, it's wmv only. When I attempt to play it,
> > I get an error message that says there is no codec for vo format.
> > The audio plays just fine.
> >
> > Somehow, I would think the newer plugin should work better. What am
> > I missing?
>
> the windows codecs.
>
> video is weird as most is a CONTAINTER format. There is a audio and
> video stream in the container. That si why sometimes you get audio and
> no video. Or that is what I recall to be the case.

OK. It wasn't installed. Now I'm getting something different. The 
playback starts and then the connection is broken. I've got to look at 
this some more.

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