mplayer/mplayer-plugin question

[jason henson]

Gary Kline wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:00:12PM -0400, jason henson wrote:
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>>Gary Kline wrote:
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>>>	What post-installation stuff do I have to do to get
>>>	mplayer-plugin to work with mozilla / firefox?
>>>	(Also, is there a way of getting this windows-player-clone
>>>	to work with links?)
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>>>	Here is what's happening:  I have everything installed;
>>>	checking "about plugings:" tells me that everything is
>>>	there.  But when I try to listen to anything windows, 
>>>	the stream seems to load, but there is nosound.  There 
>>>	are no controls.  A right-mouse click brings up a small
>>>	window.  "play" is not checked and clicking on any of the 
>>>	options does no good.  If I click on the full-screen
>>>	option, a small window (entirely black) is displayed.
>>>
>>>	I am using ctwm, not gnome or anything with gnome hooks.
>>>	Do I have to use gnome or kde to get the mplayer suite to
>>>	work?  I've poked around and don't see anything very 
>>>	helpful on this port.  Any mplayer wizards out there???
>>>
>>>	gary
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>>do you have the win32-codecs port installed?  If not install that then 
>>recompile mplayer and the plugin.
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>	It's in my pkg/db; but where is the file/path-to?
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Is it up to date?

You mean the port?
/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs

You mean the install location?
/usr/local/lib/win32/