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Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips



Nick Coleman wrote:

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:16, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
Well, seems I have a little problem I don't know how to handle.  I
had installed Sid versions of kmplayer, mozilla-mplayer, mplayer-386
and the dependencies.  Didn't like the way it worked, especially
mplayerplug-in and so I purged everything and reinstalled sarge
versions.  Now I don't have libaa* sarge versions in apt-cache to
install.  I found a sid version of
aalib1 which I purged also.  Did an aptitude install -t sarge on each
of the libaa*.debs, picking up the dependencies.  Still doesn't seem
to be right. locate libaa gives nothing like you show above.
ChatagnierL-Home:/usr/lib# locate libaa
/usr/lib/vlc/demux/libaac_plugin.so
/usr/lib/vlc/video_output/libaa_plugin.so
/var/cache/apt/archives/libaa1_1.4p5-28_i386.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libaa1.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libaa1.postrm
ChatagnierL-Home:/usr/lib#

I did a 'find / libaa' to be sure the cache was updated.
However, If I do ls -l libaa* as root, I get:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 157342 Jul  4 07:40 libaa.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    830 Jul  4 07:40 libaa.la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     14 Aug 29 21:22 libaa.so ->
libaa.so.1.0.4 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     14 Aug 29 21:03 libaa.so.1
-> libaa.so.1.0.4 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 102056 Jul  4 07:40
libaa.so.1.0.4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  16876 Feb 25  2005 libaal-minimal.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    767 Feb 25  2005 libaal-minimal.la
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  35396 Feb 25  2005 libaal.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    743 Feb 25  2005 libaal.la

or, if I do ls -l /usr/lib/libaa* as user or root, I get:
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 157342 Jul  4 07:40 /usr/lib/libaa.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    830 Jul  4 07:40 /usr/lib/libaa.la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     14 Aug 29 21:22 /usr/lib/libaa.so ->
libaa.so.1.0.4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     14 Aug 29 21:03 /usr/lib/libaa.so.1 ->
libaa.so.1.0.4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 102056 Jul  4 07:40 /usr/lib/libaa.so.1.0.4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  16876 Feb 25  2005 /usr/lib/libaal-minimal.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    767 Feb 25  2005
/usr/lib/libaal-minimal.la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35396 Feb 25 2005 /usr/lib/libaal.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 743 Feb 25 2005
/usr/lib/libaal.la

I haven't reinstalled mozilla-mplayer or mplayer-386 yet because I'm
still confused over
whether libaa* sarge versions are installed or not.  Wonder why I get
different 'locate'
results than you.

I may have misled you with libaa. It's not to be part of the mplayer package. Googling suggests it's an arithmetic library.

You have libaa in /usr/lib so I don't understand why mplayer can't find it. The only thing I can suggest is running mplayer with the -vvv mode and watch the output.

I haven't got any more to offer, I'm afraid. I hope you manage to solve it.

Good luck,
Nick


Horah, Problem solved.  Was confused by getting different "locate" results.
After purging the last sid file, aalib1, I started reloading all the files that were removed automatically when I purged aalib1. When that was finished, I was able to play audio/video files with realplayer 10 gold, after some repeated use of 'change settings' and 'media helper' to select realplayer. The files started playing with mplayerplug-in initially before selecting realplayer as default. Got a few browzer crashes while doing this but it eventually straightened out. The Sid version of aalib1 apparently picked upwhen I installed Sid versions of mozilla-mplayer and mplayer-386 appears to be the problem as I had already purged all the Sid files previously installed and reinstalled Sarge versions. However, I don't understand why mplayerplug-in wouldn't play the trailers and clips on the original sarge installation. Mozilla-> Help-> About Plugins still shows the exact identical plug-ins I had on the original sarge installation. Another Debconf issue, I guess. I still get a message to the effect that the player can't find some helix player plug-in when I first select a trailer, but selecting the trailer again plays the file with mplayerplug-in. I have that plug-in, of course. Things are still a little flakey but at least works. Nick, thanks for your help. Your suggestions lead me to finding the last sid file not removed which
apparently got mplayerplug-in working for me.

Leonard Chatagnier



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