[MPlayer-users] Codec Woes

[Stephen Stocker]

  On Tue Feb 7 03:23:17 CET 2006 Ledduk ledduk at ledduk.net wrote:

>Slackware 10.2
>FireFox 1.5
>
>I've installed Mplayer and also the Mplayer Plugin but am unable to get
>windows media files to play in my browser. Here's the FireFox info on
>the mplayerplug-in 3.17:
>
>MIME Type       Description     Suffixes        Enabled
>video/mpeg      MPEG    mpg,mpeg        Yes
>audio/mpeg      MPEG    mpg,mpeg        Yes
>video/x-mpeg    MPEG    mpg,mpeg        Yes
>video/x-mpeg2   MPEG2   mpv2,mp2ve      Yes
>audio/mpeg      MPEG    mpg,mpeg        Yes
>audio/x-mpeg    MPEG    mpg,mpeg        Yes
>audio/mpeg2     MPEG audio      mp2     Yes
>audio/x-mpeg2   MPEG audio      mp2     Yes
>video/mp4       MPEG 4 Video    mp4     Yes
>audio/mpeg3     MPEG audio      mp3     Yes
>audio/x-mpeg3   MPEG audio      mp3     Yes
>audio/mp3       MPEG audio      mp3     Yes
>application/x-ogg       Ogg Vorbis Media        ogg     Yes
>audio/ogg       Ogg Vorbis Audio        ogg     Yes
>application/ogg         Ogg Vorbis / Ogg Theora         ogg     Yes
>video/fli       FLI animation   fli,flc         Yes
>video/x-fli     FLI animation   fli,flc         Yes
>video/vnd.vivo  VivoActive      viv,vivo        Yes
>application/x-nsv-vp3-mp3       Nullsoft Streaming Video        nsv     Yes
>video/vnd.divx  DivX Media Format       divx    Yes
>audio/basic     Basic Audio File        au,snd  Yes
>audio/x-basic   Basic Audio File        au,snd  Yes
>
>Seems to be about everything there is except for windows media formats.
>Exactly what codec package do I need to download to get windows media
>support?

  Hi,

  This looks like a problem in a .mailcap file or possibly a config file
  for the plugin. I'm not familiar with either Firefox or MPlayer's
  plugin, hopefully somebody with more knowledge can steer you in the
  right direction.

  Will MPlayer play Windows Media while running it stand-alone? That
  should give you some idea. I also don't see an entry for Real Media
  files, and the FFmpeg package handles a number of Real and Windows
  media files, even if no other codec packages are installed. Hope this
  helps.

  Take care,
  Steve