I downloaded and installed all windows codecs form mplayer website but it had "ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so." error What is wrong? What is the drvc.so codec? Where can I find it?? Thanks! C:\usr\lib>mencoder.exe -srate 44100 -vf scale=160:120 -oac mp3lame -lameopts m ode=0:cbr:br=128 -ovc lavc -ffourcc DX50 -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=500 input.rm output.avi MEncoder Sherpya-MinGW-20050917-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8, Stepping: 7) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2 File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x5094d4f REAL file format detected. Stream description: Audio Stream Stream mimetype: audio/x-pn-realaudio Stream description: Video Stream Stream mimetype: video/x-pn-realvideo Stream mimetype: logical-fileinfo VIDEO: [RV30] 352x288 24bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s) [V] filefmt:11 fourcc:0x30335652 size:352x288 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'cook.so' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.so. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed ADecoder init failed Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'cook.so.6.0' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.so.6.0. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed ADecoder init failed Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'cook3260.dll' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook3260.dll. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed ADecoder init failed Opening audio decoder: [realaud] RealAudio decoder opening win32 dll 'cook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/cook' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec cook.bundle/Contents/MacOS/cook. Read the RealAudio section of the DOCS! ADecoder preinit failed ADecoder init failed Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6B6F6F63. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1 Opening video filter: [scale w=160 h=120] ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder opening win32 dll 'drvc.so' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.so. Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS! VDecoder init failed Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder opening win32 dll 'drv3.so.6.0' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv3.so.6.0. Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS! VDecoder init failed Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder opening win32 dll 'drv33260.dll' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drv33260.dll. Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS! VDecoder init failed Opening video decoder: [realvid] RealVideo decoder opening win32 dll 'drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc' Error loading dll ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec drvc.bundle/Contents/MacOS/drvc. Read the RealVideo section of the DOCS! VDecoder init failed Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x30335652. Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html! ========================================================================== Exiting...
.so files are for *nix not windows. Windows uses dll's. You are missing cook3260.dll and drv33260.dll http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/rp9codecs-win32-20050115.tar.bz2 unpack into your codecs dir and try again.