Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Tiago Pedrosa wrote:
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> On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100
> Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Chinook wrote:
> >
> > > Marc Shapiro wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Robert Glueck wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > > I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format
> > > > > on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard
> > > > > TV set.  
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to play them on Sarge.  Just today I clicked on a .mov
> > > > file and was asked if I wanted to use the default program
> > > > (gmplayer).  I said yes, but after it DL'd the file it complained
> > > > that it could not find the proper codec (I don't remember, now,
> > > > which codec it was looking for). Is there some place to get the
> > > > proper codecs to make these work.  If so, where is it?  If not,
> > > > why give a default player that can not actually play the file?
> > >
> > >
> > > You might both look at VLC in your package app, or see
> > > http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
> >
> > I just tried it on the .mov file from above.  The video played just 
> > fine, but there was no audio at all.  I checked the preferences, made 
> > sure that audio was enabled and the sound was turned all the way up. 
> > Still no sound.  I normally do get sound on this box.  Is there 
> > something else that I am missing?  If you need more information, just 
> > let me know.
> >
> > Marc
>
> Hi ;
> 	I think that the problem could be codecs, you should install
> w32codecs.
> 	This package is in the mirror of marillat the same of mplayer.


Richard Lyons wrote:

> I had something similar a couple of days ago, watching a DVD.  vlc has
> an 'audio' menu, IIRC, containing mono, stereo and something else. It
> was defaulting every time to the something else, and clicking on stereo
> switched the sound on.

I installed the codecs from marillat, but that did not change anything. 
 I also checked all of the audio options under the audio menu and under 
preferences, to no avail.

Now that I have the codecs installed, however, gmplayer will give me 
audio for the .mov file, but still no video.  If I could just sync the 
audio from gmplayer with the video from vlc then I would have a 
work-around.  A LOUSY work-around, mind you, but a work-around.

Very frustrated is,
Marc Shapiro