Re: VLC playing nearly nothing
What system are you running on? I have an iBook G3 for example. In Mplayer click the little spanner icon and change video output to XV. I use ESD output as well as I'm a bit sad and I like hearing the GNOME system sounds.
Ananda
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:47:24 +0100
Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Ananda
>
> Thanks for responding so fast ...
>
> On Fri, Feb 16 2007, at 14:27 +0000, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
>
> > I'm having the same problems with VLC in Etch. I'd recommend
> > MPlayer instead. MPlayer plays everything.
>
> Not here: I always had, and still have probs getting mplayer or xine
> playing wmv3 files, with, e.g., mplayer errors like this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> ... which was why I was so happy about vlc that even played files like
> the ones mentioned above (IIRC) until a few weeks ago ...
>
>
> > You might need to set the correct video and audio out in the options
> > though.
>
> Some hints on how to do that? mplayer settings/rc's ? Please remember:
> I'm on ppc .. :)
>
> Besides: I don't think it's a good idea to simply move on to other
> software if the one that previously worked like a charm suddenly
> fails. We're on Debian: If we don't fix it, who will?
>
> So clearly: I'd like to help fix vlc.
>
> Thanks in anticipation ... :)
>
> Best Regards
> Wolfgang
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