Re: movie pb on totem ??

[Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net>]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 12:23:37 -0500
Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

> belahcene wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I ve just installed sarge deb3.1, mozilla-firefox. by default totem is
> > calling when I try to watch movie on the net. In general the movies
> > require mplayer and realplayer. Here I send an image of the error (
> > attached). I tried realplayer too, but I could heard a song not watch
> > a video??
> > please is there any help
> > best regards
> > bela
> >
> Error Message: Totem could not play
> 'mmx://198.239.32.152/VideoArchives/200506/2005060071.wmv'
> 
> I suspect that you don't have the appropriate codecs/decoders installed
> for this particular wmv file. I've run into situations where one .wmv
> file will play, while another will not. I have always assumed that they
> must be coded in two different versions, and I only have the decoder
> software for one of the versions.
> 
> If you haven't already done so, you might go to the MPlayer site and
> download the package of codecs that's labeled something like "basic" or
> "all the base formats" (or whatever it's called), and unzip them into
> /usr/local/lib/codecs (which I have as a symlink to /usr/local/lib/win32).
> 

i found them in 'essential-20050216.tar.bz2' but only have the file, not the url...  I suppose a google for the file name might yield the site..

mike..Houston,tx
 

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