Re: unable to install mozilla-mplayer plugin

["Digvijoy Chatterjee" <chatterjee.digvijoy@gmail.com>]

On 10/22/06, Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > I run Debian-testing i386 ,
> > I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics ,
> > and this is what I got back !!..
> >
> > mozilla-mplayer:
> >  Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-custom (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-386 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-586 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-686 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-k6 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-k7 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-powerpc (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-g4 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-amd64 (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or
> >       mplayer-nogui (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable
> > Any Idea , do I need to install mplayer first or there is a way around this
> I just now upgraded mplayer on my Etch system using:
>
> ############# Acroread, Mplayer, RealPlayer etc #################
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main
> ########################################################################
>
> mozilla-mplayer was not touched.

I was able to install mplayer pointing apt to the sources above, but
still not able to play DVDs.....

Playing dvd://1.
libdvdread: Encrypted DVD support unavailable.
libdvdread: Invalid main menu IFO (VIDEO_TS.IFO).

, or .wmv etc..i remember when i source compiled mplayer for SUSE i
had to download codecs , and the configure script found them, and i
was able to play .wmv etc.. is there a way to do this easy in Debian
without going into the complications of source
compilations/checkinstalls etc...or are there some licensing issues
which prevent Debian from shipping mplayer with all codecs...??

Thanks
Digz