Re: Install mplayer

[hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com>]

On 3/2/08, Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2008, hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote:
>  >  >  > Hi,
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > I want to install mplayer RC2 and I added "deb
>  >  >  > http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main" to the
>  >  >  > /dev/apt/source.list. After running "apt-get update", it came many
>  >  >  > errors.
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > What errors?
>  >
>  >
>  > W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable Release: The
>  >  following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
>  >  not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
>  >  W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
>
>
> The answer to that one is on their FAQ:
>  Q. Why apt-get doesn't find this public key : NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 ?
>  A. Install the debian-multimedia-keyring package with apt-get "apt-get
>  install debian-multimedia-keyring" or with "dpkg -i
>  debian-multimedia-keyring" (click on the link to download the
>  package).
>
>
>  >  Actually, I remove the http://www.debian-multimedia.org from
>  >  sources.list, the apt-get install mplayer works, but I am not sure if
>  >  it gets a RC2 mplayer or old RC1 mplayer.
>  >
>  >  Is it possible to just have a command line RC2 mplayer by "apt-get
>  >  install mplayer"?
>
>
> apt-cache show mplayer
>  Shows that the version in stable is 1.0~rc1-12etch2.

So, it shows the version 1.0 RC1, not RC2. How can I installed the RC2?

>  The mplayer that you can install in debian will be very restrictive
>  with the codecs that are supplied with it. You will have to look
>  elsewhere to install non-free codecs, google can help here.
>  http://www.princessleia.com/MPlayer.php looks to be a good start.
>
>  Adrian

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Jim