Re: Newbie no go with VCD's and mov files with Etch i386.

["Brian Durant" <interlists@gmail.com>]

On 12/11/06, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> 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

Hmm. It would be nice if there were a list of codex and libs to get
things working. In my case there seems to be an added problem. I am
running Etch i386 with GNOME, but I installed and tried out kxdocker
to see if it would do what I needed. I found out that kxdocker is
deeply reliant on KDE, So I did a complete remove with Synaptic. When
I start totem from the command line, I get the following error
message:

"$ totem %U
Creating link /home/user/.kde/socket-bifrost.
can't create mcop directory"

I am not sure how to solve this problem. Can anyone help?

However, my earlier description of my media issues still stand, as I
can't play .mov files or VCD's with any other player.

Cheers,

Brian