[MPlayer-users] Newbie needs help with error messages

[David Lindsey]

OF course, after sending I realized the probable cause of the first
issue. Mandrake must build with the codecs in /usr/lib/win32/ but they
don't put the codecs in the rpm. Most likely copywright reasons.

David

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 19:39:33 +0530, David Lindsey <davidlindsey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had the same problem with mplayer-1.0-0.pre3.13mdk on my Mandrake 10
> install. I'm just using the rpm, not compiling my own, but I was about
> to because the docs mostly just talk about that. Also, the docs say
> that the standard place to put codecs is /usr/local/codecs/ so I
> created the dir and dumped the 'all' package in there but it didn't
> work. The docs also mention /usr/lib/win32/ but as the 'old' place for
> the codecs. As they talk about configuring, then compiling right after
> they talk about where to put them. Makes it sound like the only way to
> do it. Well, my 'Cannot find codec for audio format 0x324D4451'
> problem went away after I made the second dir and dumped the codecs in
> there. Which is great, but that leads me into the next little problem:
> 
> When I used the mailing list archive search link and searched for
> '0x324D4451', it never gave me any results. It was only after doing a
> random google search on the string that I hit these messages. So that
> was a little irritating, it might have saved me a lot of time.
> 
> Any suggestions about where to post these two little issues where
> they'll do the most good?
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> David
>