Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
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On Monday 17 December 2001 6:51 pm, Matt wrote:
> Alan,
>
> mplayer still relies on some win32 codecs -- these will soon be replaced
> by linux native/gpl'ed codecs. Is that what you're talking about? If
> it's only dvd that's not working, you probably need libcss (the
> supposedly illegal library) to play it. You can grab all of this.. or
> at least tips on where to find it.. at the mplayer site mentioned below.
>
I do have libcss and libdvdread
I need to use mplayer -dvd 1 rather than -vcd 2
It was with a dvd - it now works as far as playing what I assume is the first
.vob file and then stops with end of file. (logged in as normal user with
cdrom group rights)
> Try running mplayer as root when reading a dvd -- if it works, at least
> you know where to start fixing. I'm pretty sure yours is a problem of
> css decrypting, though...s
Ahh - now the movie seems to play past the first end of file - I think this
must be a permissions problem - someone has said add write access to the dvd
device - I will have to look into this.
>
> cheers,
> Matt
>
> On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 21:44, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> > On Saturday 15 December 2001 3:24 pm, Matt wrote:
> > > Use mplayer. It's the best video player for linux .. but it's not in
> > > the debian testing dist.
> > >
> > > get it here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu
> >
> > I got it, configured and compiled it and tried to run it to play a dvd
> > disk.
> >
> > It complained about a missing codecs file - but I haven't seen such a
> > file mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Anyone any ideas.
> >
> > - --
> >
> > Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
> > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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- --
Alan - alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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