mplayer codecs install

[lowey23]

Downloaded a package from mplayer site - all-20050412.tar.bz2 (extra codecs)

did this:

Note: in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu, you can "un-tar" (or unzip) a .tar.gz graphically. I've never had to use the tar terminal command. To un-tar a .tar.gz graphically, just open it (double-click usually does this), then click on Extract.

File is in /home/garylowe/

Can someone help me to install it from there?

Thanks

Lowey


Edit: This is what it tells me in the readme file. Could someone explain how to do this, please. please type slowly as I don't read very fast.

quote:Put the files contained in this archive in a directory where MPlayer will find
them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ ($prefix/lib/codecs/) if
you are compiling from source, but you can change that value by passing the
'--with-codecsdir' option to './configure'.endquote

[Djem]

This one did the trick for me. just remember to update the names (essential-20040922.tar.bz2 -> all-20050412.tar.bz2)
http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/hack/ubuntu.txt

Think this is what you do (in terminal):
$ cd /home/garylowe/
$ tar -xjf all-20050412.tar.bz2
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs
$ sudo cp all-20050412.tar.bz2/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/

hope it helps...

[lowey23]

Thank you, Djem. The codecs installed fine. Unfortunately, things still won't work for me. I think I may need to uninstall and reinstall mplayer.
Thanks for your reply

Lowey

[dacar]

Beware. It is written in the readme file :

"If you use a prebuilt MPlayer package it will most likely be /usr/lib/codecs"

So if you installed Mplayer from source you must install the codecs in

/usr/lib/local/codecs

If you installed from a package you must install in /usr/lib/codecs

My guess is that you installed from a package and so your codecs are probably not in the right directory. You should try :


sudo mkdir /usr/lib/codecs
sudo cp /usr/lib/local/codecs/* /usr/lib/codecs

[lowey23]

Thank you, dacar. I put the codecs into the correct place (/usr/lib/codecs) and yahoooooo!!!

Sound AND video. What a concept!!!

Thanks so much to all who helped me. You've made on old fat guy very happy.

Cheers

Lowey