On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:07:57 -0400, Haines Brown (brownh@hartford-hwp.com) wrote:
> I installed and have been using mplayer succcessfully, but decided I'd
> like to be able to run DVDs, and so now installed the win32codecs
> package. I was able to play one DVD, which is a copy of an old silent
> film, but when I try a new DVD, I get:
>
> libavformat file format detected.
> LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
>
> Exiting... (End of file)
>
> So I did
>
> $ mplayer -v
> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> ...
> get_path('codecs.conf') -> '/home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf'
> Reading /home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf:
> Can't open '/home/brownh/.mplayer/codecs.conf':
> No such file or directory
> Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open
> '/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory
> Using built-in default codecs.conf.
> ...
>
> It turned out I have no codecs.conf file in either /etc/mplayer/ or in
> ~/.mplayer/ . Shouldn't mplayer have created the file? I was unable to
> locate any instance of codecs.conf.
>
> Should I have uninstalled mplayer and then reinstalled it after
> installing win32codecs?
I don't think you need those codecs to play DVDs, but you might find
that kaffeine or the totem movie player (both use xine I believe) 'just
work'.
--
Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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