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jonathan89
10-24-2003, 11:55 PM
hey, i need immediante help!!!
ihave a lot of movies i wanna play on my linux box
but all my media players just show scarmbled colors lines :-\ (it plays the sound)? Whats wrong?!?!?!?!?
jailbreaker
10-25-2003, 12:59 AM
try installing the codecshttp://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
do_guh_new
10-25-2003, 02:06 AM
hey, i need immediante help!!!
ihave a lot of movies i wanna play on my linux box
but all my media players just show scarmbled colors lines :-\ (it plays the sound)? Whats wrong?!?!?!?!?

ya you gotta do a little better than that, what's the movie player(s) in question here? What distro is this machine running?
jonathan89
10-25-2003, 09:31 AM
mandrake 9.1
im tring to use noatun and xine, both give the same problem :-(
i dont have mplayer
Homer119
10-25-2003, 02:52 PM
mplayer always seems to work, but i dont know in this case. give it a try anyway, cant hurt?
jailbreaker
10-25-2003, 03:01 PM
I dunno know if it's just me but I think the mplayer codecs work just fine with xine:o
madmaxx
10-25-2003, 03:28 PM
1) Go here

http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

download & istall the w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm....

2) Open xine.... Settings > Setup > codec (insert the path)

that's all

enjoy.....
jonathan89
10-25-2003, 05:02 PM
dude the rpm installed fine, i also got to where i can put the codec path. Problem: I cant figure out the path of the codec :( where would it have installed itself?
madmaxx
10-25-2003, 05:56 PM
Find out the path with the following command.....

rpm -ql w32codec

.....generally the path should be.....

/usr/lib/win32


HTH
jonathan89
10-25-2003, 09:41 PM
ok, i set the codec to /usr/lib/win32 (thats where it said the path was). and same problem :-(

uhhhh, oddly the xine will play a video (no sound), if it is a .asx file and another copy of xine is already working. aint dat wierd.......

any ideas???????


thanx forthe help you've already given me
madmaxx
10-26-2003, 05:34 AM
...and another copy of xine is already working. aint dat wierd.......

what do u mean?????

:confused:

.....uhhhh, oddly the xine will play a video (no sound), if it is a .asx file.....

have u tried 2 play a diff. .asx or is it just one file??? what audio drive r u using???

It might be an idea to just delete the ~/.xine (in your home) dir & do the settings again....

Another thing u can do is download the following to a new dir & install with:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/atrpms/atrpms-17-1.rh9.at.noarch.rpm
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/w32codec/w32codec-1.0-6.rh9.at.i386.rpm



HTH