[MPlayer-users] Re: Matrix Reloaded (94MB .mov trailer)

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 21 April 2003, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Jasjeet Singh Sekhon wrote:
> > [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been trying to get mplayer to work with the 94MB Matrix
> > Reloaded trailer (i.e., the "ultra" version of the trailer).  The
> > picture looks good, but there is no sound.  mplayer gives a message
> > that the sound codecs is not known.  I have the following codecs
> > installed (recall that the picture is fine):
> >
> > mplayer-codecs-linux-real-9.0-2.i386.rpm
> > mplayer-codecs-linux-xanim-1.0-2.i386.rpm
> > mplayer-codecs-win32-1.0-2.i386.rpm
> > mplayer-codecs-win32-dmo-9.0-2.i386.rpm
> > mplayer-codecs-win32-mjpeg2k-1.0-2.i386.rpm
> > mplayer-codecs-win32-qt-6.0-2.i386.rpm
> > mplayer-codecs-win32-qtextras-1.0-2.i386.rpm
> >
> > I'm running on Linux RH 7.3 (Athlon).
> 
> I don't know anything about the rpms, but you need AAC support to play
> the trailer with sound. Get faad2 from faac.sf.net. And then, I think
> you have to compile mplayer yourself.

There is no AAC support in official binary RPMs. I'm still working on
optional support (i.e. faad RPMs).

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