[MPlayer-users] Mencoder codec location

[Terry Corbet]

I have read the documentation concerning the placement of the codecs in the case of using mplayer on a windows platform, and have placed the downloaded codecs in that directory.  I am, however, running mencoder and do not find any indication of where it looks for codecs.  Here is my error message:
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Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
IMediaObject ERROR: 00B45A34  no such class object (0x80004001 : -2147467263)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvadvd.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed :(
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x32505657.
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The wmvadvd.dll file indeed is in the codecs sub-directory, but is not being found.

Please advise as to proper mencoder usage.  Thank you.