Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

[Debian User Leonard Chatagnier <lenc@ruralcomm.com>]

Nick wrote:

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> Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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> > Using Sarge stable with RealPlayer 10 Gold.  Can play audio/video files
> > with realplayer on all sites but
> > can't play movie trailers or clips(wmv format) on any site. 
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> mplayer and xine will play wmv files.  mplayer has a plug-in for browsers
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Had these installed but just noticed that the mplayerplug-in*.so
files are now missing.  Still have the mplayerplug-in*.xpt files.  
Reinstalled
mozilla-mplayer and got mplayerplug-in.so back in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
but not the other shown below:
  mplayerplug-in-gmp.so
  mplayerplug-in-qt.so
  mplayerplug-in-rm.so
  mplayerplug-in-wmp.so
These may have come from a sid version but were still in 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
after purging and installing the stable versions.  I even copied the 
-wmp one to
~/.mozilla/plugins Ran mplayer on a Yahoo trailer with this result:
ChatagnierL-Home:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# mplayer 
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/movies/top/noteworthy/thebrothersgrimm/?http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/thebrothersgrimm.html
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libaa.so.1: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory
ChatagnierL-Home:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins# 
Not sure what this is telling me.  Wajiged everything I knew and 
apt-cached searched libaa.so.1; didn't show anything.

> too.
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> > Have tried 
> > my.yahoo.com, cnn.com and movie.com
> > and all I get is the usual player screen with a black background and "no
> > picture" in parenthesis in the center
> > of the player screen.  Have run media helper or change settings on the
> > sites that they're available and get the same
> > no picture whether selecting windows media player, realplayer or quick
> > time.  Have visited the Helix and Sourceforge
> > sites trying out all suggestions and installation tips with no success.
> > I think I have all the necessary plugins and codecs.
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> Have you installed the win32 codecs from Christian Marillat?  Add this to
> your /etc/apt/sources.list:
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Yes, the w32codecs are installed and I have the mirror listed in
sources.list