[MPlayer-users] Can't find codec 'msmpeg4' in libavcodec...

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 21 May 2003, Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi
> 
> I am running MPlayer 0.90pre6-3.2 from SuSE 8.1 install on celeron 600 CPU 
[...]
> Can't find codec 'msmpeg4' in libavcodec...
[...] 
> 
> Is it the SuSE compile. ie Is it better to remove the SuSE CD install and 
> download and compile from scratch?

Yes, it is. Their release is crippled to hell. Go compile your own latest
version or try the RH RPMs, they *may* work for you too.

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