[TAG] Recording OpenCourseWare free lectures

[Ben Okopnik]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:37:18AM -0400, Jim Doutt wrote:
> I really appreciate all your comments and suggestions.  I installed 
> mplayer using 'apt-get' and can play '.avi' files, but so far havn't 
> managed to make headway on the 'realplayer' ones from the web site.
> 
> I get errors like the following
> 
>     Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: drv33260.dll, 
> /usr/lib/codecs/drv33260.dll, /usr/lib/win32/drv33260.dll, 
> /usr/local/lib/win32/drv33260.dll
>     Error loading dll
> 
> even though I can see the driver in    /usr/local/lib/codecs/
> ll  /usr/local/lib/codecs/drv33260.dll
> -rw-r--r--    1 1054     103        208935 Dec  9  2002 
> /usr/local/lib/codecs/drv33260.dll
> 
> any suggestions?

Go to the Mplayer home page, <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/>, download the
latest kit of codecs, and copy them to your codec directory
(/usr/lib/win32, usually.) Everyone using the RealPlayer codec needs to
do that anyway, given this quote from Mplayer's front page:

   Multiple vulnerabilities have been found and fixed in the
   Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) client for RealNetworks
   servers, including a series of potentially remotely
   exploitable buffer overflows. This is a joint advisory by
   the MPlayer and xine teams as the code in question is
   common to these projects. The xine team has assigned ID
   XSA-2004-3 to this security announcement.
   ...


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