Re: playing mkv files.
On tor, nov 18, 2004 at 03:41:16 -0500, Michael Spang wrote:
> There is no Debian package for mplayer, which plays mkv files (and just
> about anything else imaginable) extremely well. I am curious as to what
> you tried if you didn't build it from source. You can get the source
> from their webpage (google it) and install it to /usr/local. I don't
> know about any of the other players, but mplayer does work.
>
Ah, I'd forgotten. I have theese lines in /etc/apt/sources.conf
#mplayer etc
deb http://freevo.sourceforge.net/debian unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
> The only matroska packages in debian unstable are libmatroska-dev and
> mkvtoolnix. mkvtoolnix can mux/demux/remux matroska files, but cannot
> play them.
I'll play with that that and see where it gets me.
alex
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