Windows codecs & MPlayer

[Christoph Georgi]

For me, the mplayer GUI isn't working: When I'm playing a movie, an 
error message keeps popping up (very, fast, so that one can hardly read 
it) that mplayer can't find the device /dev/mixer. However, mplayer via 
terminal is working without any errors.

Any ideas. Thanks

christoph

Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:59:29PM -0800, Jared wrote:
> 
>>
>>On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:45 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:22:32AM -0800, Bob Nielsen said
>>>
>>>>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:55:30AM -0500, GR Gaudreau wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>How would one go about getting codecs to play Windows midi and wmv
>>>>>files? I've read somewhere that mplayer utilizes such codecs, but
>>
>>none
>>
>>>>>of the repositories have it.
>>>>
>>>>Try this one:
>>>>
>>>>deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
>>>
>>>These won't install on warty, you need to use the testing version of
>>
>>the
>>
>>>packages.
>>
>>>[GR]   I used 'testing' and installed mplayer from there. All I have to
>>>do now is download more codecs. BTW, it works, so thanks to that person
>>>who gave me the tip.
>>
>>Hey. I followed the full instructions given in the HOWTO multimedia on
>>the Ubuntu forum and everything works great. XMMS streams audio files,
>>mplayer works etc. The only problem is that I cannot get Windows Media
>>type files to work. Any thoughts??? Did you get this working?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Jared
>>
>>UBUNTU ROCKS!!!
> 
> 
> Install w32codecs from the above site (use testing instead of unstable).
> 
> 
>