[MPlayer-users] Retry: qt audio problem

[Sascha Sommer]

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Thanks for your response. Comments interspersed.
>
> Corey Hickey wrote:
>
> >>
> >> MPlayer 0.90rc5-3.2.2 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
> >>
> > [SNIP]
> >
> > RC5 is way old. Download and build CVS or 0.90, and try that.
>
> That was 0.90. That's the message it prints out. Are other people seeing
> it print out a message that just says 0.90? Just to be sure, I rebuilt
> from the tarball from scratch. Even if I go into the MPlayer-0.90 build
> directory and do ./mplayer, I still see that version message with the rc5.

It is a known issue of 0.90.

> > If you
> > still have trouble, make sure your quicktime codecs are up to date
> > (there's a link on the mplayer download page).
>
> I downloaded them yesterday. Specifically, I got
> qt6dlls.tar.bz2 and
> qtextras.tar.bz2
> untarred them, and then copied the contents of both into /usr/lib/win32
> (along with the files from win32codecs.tar.bz2, also re-downloaded
> yesterday).
>
> > Then, update your
> > codecs.conf:
> >
> > replace /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf (system wide)
> > or ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf (user-specific)
> > with /path/to/mplayer/source/etc/codecs.conf
>
> Actually, I had no /etc/mplayer. So I created it and copied
> (path)/MPlayer-0.90/etc/codecs.conf to it. No codecs.conf in ~/.mplayer.
> Same result.
>

The following lines are missing in you log:
### Searching for QuickTime plugins (*.qtx) at /usr/lib/win32...
### FindNext: QuickTimeEssentials.qtx
### FindNext: QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx

So please check if you really have those qtx files in /usr/lib/win32

Sascha