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mPlayer install script & add dereg of old avi codecs ???
Greggory Shaw:
Could somebody please post the install script from the article on Os2World
detailing installation of mPlayer ! The old forum posts are gone.
Also, is there any way to add code to it that will deregister the OLD avi codecs
that come with Os2/eCS ???
Thank you to the person that wrote it !!!
Greggory
Pete:
Hi Greggory
I'm not sure who wrote the mplayer "how to" - I think it was collated from various posts on the subject. Was there an install script as well?
Here is what I remember from installing mplayer some time ago:-
1] Download mplayer - current version is http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/video/players/mplayer-1.1.1-4.4.6.zip
2] Download codecs - current version is http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-essential-20071007.zip
3] unzip mplayer into a directory of your choice eg \programs\mplayer
4] unzip the codec package into a temporary directory then copy the unzipped files into a sub directory of mplayer eg \programs\mplayer\codecs
5] copy \mplayer\npmp.dll to the directory containing your Firefox/Seamonkey plugins - remove the old netscape plugin files to avoid possible problems
6] add required entries to config.sys file; I have the following:-
REM ***** mplayer variables
SET MPLAYER_PATH=J:\PROGRAMS\MULTIMEDIA\mplayer
SET MPLAYER_CODECS_DIR=J:\PROGRAMS\MULTIMEDIA\mplayer\codecs
SET MPLAYER_HOME=I:\users\peter\home\.mplayer
Obviously you will need to change Drive:\DirectoryPath to suit your system
Other options:
smplayer makes a good gui frontend for mplayer - see http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4%20Multimedia
but requires the qt runtime support - see http://svn.netlabs.org/qt4/
I'm not sure about deregistering the old os2 codecs.
If you have eCS1.2 (? or was it 1.1) or later then the CWMM is installed on your system. Have a read of the [BootDrive]:\MMOS2\MEDIAFLD\DOC\mediafldr.inf to discover how to replace the default os2 avi and mpg players with smplayer.
I do not think that I have missed anything. If I have I hope someone else will add it to the above.
Regards
Pete
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Greggory.
I recovered an old backup of the forum and it is available here:
http://www.os2world.com/oldforum/index.php?topic=994.msg24136#msg24136
Please notice that the old recovered forum is only for backup, is read only and does not have the attachments stored.
Regards
Greggory Shaw:
Thank you Pete for all the info and Martin for the link !!!
Martin Iturbide:
Hi Greggory
I will also like to invite you to write some lines about MPlayer and OS/2 on the OS2World.com/wiki
It uses the same userid/password of this forum.
Regards
Martin
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