On Saturday 12 March 2005 23:26, centos-request@caosity.org wrote:> On a closely related topic, the mplayer RPMs do not come equipped with > all the necessary codecs (due to licensing issues, I presume). I > couldn''t find any RPMs with the necessary codecs, so I installed a set > manually, but the codecs only work partially. For example, mplayer can > play movie trailers both (sound and video) and .mp3 files, but it > fails with .mpeg files. > > Does a supported RPM with the proper codecs for mplayer exist > anywhere? I found a reference somewhere about an > mplayer-codecs-essential package, but I can''t find it anywhere. > > --I went to the following site:http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B in order to use the DAG repository with "up2date" i added "yum dag http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag" to "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources",now installing mplayer was simply : "up2date mplayer" in the console (as root).