mplayer on 6.2

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:56:57 -0400 (EDT)
"kalin mintchev" <kalin at el.net> wrote:

> hi all...
> 
> just installed mplayer - pkg_add - and it can not play a simple wmv
> file yet. so i got the codecs and apparently the codec for wmv has to
> be here: /usr/local/lib/win32/
> 
> what about the other ones - like quicktime, *.acm, *ax?! do they all
> go in the same directory?


Do you not have multimedia/win32-codecs installed? It's done
automatically if you build mplayer from ports. I guess there must be
license restrictions that prevent its being packaged. 

cd /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs && make install