On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 08:05:17PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Hi Nik, > > On 12/10/06, Nik <nik@cheddarcheese.de> wrote: > >In article <[🔎] 828122ea0612101044u4fc4df92ja6e1a0937e3ec9d2@mail.gmail.com>, > > Brian Durant <interlists@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know this problem comes up on a regular basis, but I can't play > >> VCD's or .mov files with Etch i386. I have googled, checked the list > >> archives, looked in a number of books I have at home on Linux, etc. > >> and from what I have read, I believe I have downloaded all of the > >> necessary libs and codex, but still no luck. I have tried with > >> Mplayer, VLC and Totem. > > > >> To make matters worse, Totem has started crashing as soon as I start > >> the program. > > > >This also happened to me, so I changes the backend to xine: > >aptitude install totem-xine > > I just checked Synaptic and for some reason I have both the so called > totem "dummy package" as well as totem-xine. > > > >Nik I have no gret experience in this, but I know that the various ways these various file types can be decoded may not always work due to various code changes. I have found that if something stops working, I have to go into xine itself and mess with its configurations. For example, recently, mp3's stopped working through ffmpeg in xine based players. I launched xine itself (there is surely a conf file for this too), and since I'm master of the known universe, I can tweak all kinds of library prefrences for xine. I pushed up the priority on w32codecs so that its higher the ffmpeg and now mp3's work again. Now maybe I'm misunderstanding stuff here, but it works for me. A
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