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davidnix71:
I use a Mac. What do you do to get MPlayer to play WM? I can't get VLC to play it most of the time.
Even Flash is difficult outside of a browser. I downloaded a Japanese commercial in Flash and iSquint crashed trying to make it an mp4. It said the file was 'truncated', but it played it Firefox.
YouTube and MySpace are messing with each other, too. The new version of Flash required by MySpace disables sound if you use the older version and go to YouTube.
H_TeXMeX_H:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-ppc-20051120.tar.bz2
these are the codecs ... install them.
Well if I'm wrong they're in here somewhere:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
Calum:
--- Quote from: hm_murdock ---They should be illegal due to high amounts of suck found in them, as well as multiple counts of douchebaggery.
--- End quote ---
well said!
Calum:
regarding the wm9 codec, i believe its uptake has been slight at best, so i'm not worried. i now use mp3 for preference even though it's weak compared with ogg vorbis. the reason for this is that hardware mp3 players of several people i know only do mp3 (not ogg or m4a, the two other main formats for me at the moment). Luckily i have some scripts* to convert any i may download into other formats. These scripts rely on having all the right codecs installed in your /usr/lib/win32 directory though.
* which i fully plan to update in a month or two
worker201:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 ---I use a Mac. What do you do to get MPlayer to play WM? I can't get VLC to play it most of the time.
--- End quote ---
From the readme file you get when you download the codecs package from Mplayer:
--- Quote ---Support for Windows Media formats except WMV9 exists but still has some bugs, your mileage may vary
--- End quote ---
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs
You'd probably get better results if you built mplayer yourself, after installing all the codecs yourself. Which is a pain in the ass, guaranteed.
Personally, and I've said it before, if it doesn't play on mplayer, quicktime, xine, or VLC, then I don't need it. But you can do what you want. If you need any help building mplayer, let me know.
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