Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?
On 2010-04-17, Clive McBarton <clivemcbarton@web.de> wrote:
>
> Mark wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone else experienced mplayer generating Fatal Error "Error
>>> opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" after adding
>>> debian-multimedia.org to sources.list and performing the subsequent Smart
>>> Upgrades? I'm trying to figure out if that's the cause; since other
>>> machines I have without debian-multimedia.org in the sources.list tab play
>>> the same .mov files fine I'm suspecting this. I've tried various tweaks I
>>> found on-line to the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file for the vo section but
>>> nothing worked. I'll be re-doing the installation for a friend and wanted
>>> to avoid breaking mplayer if possible.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on
>> Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same
>> machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list,
>> and mplayer plays the .mov files just fine.
>>
>> Wanted to share in case anyone else has this problem.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> Adding debian-multimedia.org breaks a couple of things. Including vlc. I
> don't know why they don't fix their repository.
>
> I'm curious if many people use debian-multimedia. Is it trustworthy?
>
>
I have been using debian-multimedia with Debian stable for years without
any problems. It is a vauluable and reliable service, and is provided by
a well-known Debian developer.
To the OP: do you have an example of a file that (the debian-multimedia
version of) mplayer refuses to play?
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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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