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I've used MPlayer for a long time, never had any problems with it- until I tried putting it on Ubuntu. Now it's worked fine for many things, but there are ...
  1. 12-13-2005 #1
    Stormblazer
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    MPlayer (or any player installable by synaptic) >_<

    I've used MPlayer for a long time, never had any problems with it- until I tried putting it on Ubuntu.

    Now it's worked fine for many things, but there are several files which mplayer refuses to recognize a video stream for, despite the mplayer installs on both of my other installations (gentoo and windows xp) being able to play them just fine.

    I've installed ffmpeg, and just about every codec I can think of, no luck. Any ideas?
    And if not, anyone know how hard it might be to install mplayer manually from source using Ubuntu?
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    Have you installed win32 codecs?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mindblast
    Have you installed win32 codecs?
    MPlayer has no use for those codecs (in normal situations), they are compiled within MPlayer.

    MPlayer works perfectly for me on Debian Sarge (from Christian Marillat repository)...

    In Ubuntu? (MPlayer from multiverse?) Hum...

    Check out the plugins for Mozilla Firefox, as by default Ubuntu use the totem plugin, mplayer & totem could conflict...


    /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

    there is something about totem there, take it off.

    And restart Firefox

    I guess it could help...

    Ubuntu is good, but there is a few cliches like this one that really bothers me too much.
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    How hard on Ubuntu? Nothing you can't handle:

    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/install.html
    http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/linux.html

    I did compile it a few times without any issue (on Kubuntu), but I have yet to try to compile it "as a package", which seems the best way to do it.



    Did you download the package with :


    Code:
    deb http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu breezy main restricted
# deb-src http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted

deb http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy-updates main restricted
# deb-src http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy-updates main restricted

deb http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy universe multiverse
# deb-src http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy universe multiverse

# deb http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http&#58;//gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/ubuntu/ breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http&#58;//security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
# deb-src http&#58;//security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted

deb http&#58;//security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe multiverse
# deb-src http&#58;//security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe multiverse
    ?

    Of course http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca is my local mirror...
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