[MPlayer-users] New installation is not picking up codecs

[Corey Hickey]

Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 00:06, Corey Hickey wrote:
>> Brad McNeely wrote:
>>>  After running on SuSE 8.2 and 9.1 on a 32-bit kernel for a couple of years, I upgraded to SuSE 10 on a 64-bit kernel.  I downloaded the lastest mplayer build with cvs today but it doesn't seem to be picking up the codecs.  I installed them just like I did on the other platform.  Here's some into to help prime the well:
>> Yes, unfortunately, since the win32 codecs are 32-bit, they don't work 
> 
> Though oddly, -vfm ffmpeg seems disabled for him too.

Huh, I didn't even notice that. Perhaps he forgot to download 
libavcodec, libavformat, and libavutil from ffmpeg CVS.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#cvs

Still, he'll probably want to have a working 32-bit binary for those 
annoying formats that aren't yet reverse-engineered. :)

-Corey