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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 9/8/05, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org <3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
> sindi keesan wrote:
> >
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>http://sit.iitkgp.ernet.in/archive/packages/mplayer/all-20040809/
> >>-----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I only needed to download the realplayer 9 codec package rather 
> > than the much larger one 
> 
> The above URL is not a package.  It is a directory from which 
> you can download a single codec.  Kilobytes instead of megabytes.

Very nice, and certainly much easier than trying to download the 10MB
codec package.

> The following codecs are the only ones (so far) that I've 
> found useful with our version of mplayer:
> ------------
> acelpdec.ax
> cook.so.6.0
> drv3.so.6.0
> drv4.so.6.0
> wmv9dmod.dll
> ------------

I have also needed some more of the wmv* codecs with WMV files
which I created (on a Windows XP computer; it was an easy way to
get a full-motion video screen capture). Some .avi files which you
find on the net use ir50_32.dll.

David