Re: missing codecs.conf
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin@gmail.com> writes:
> Haines Brown wrote:
> 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.
>> ...
> You do not need win32codecs to play DVDs. Also, I don't really think
> codecs.conf is necessary.
>
> Perhaps you need the libdvdcss2 library to decrypt encrypted DVDs.
> Debian does not carry it, but you can get it from
> www.debian-multimedia.org . I don't know if the standard Debian version
> of mplayer can use it even if it is installed by the user, but you'd
> probably be better off using the mplayer from debian-multimedia anyway.
Eduardo, I installed the libdvdcss2, but it didn't help. I looked for
the debian mplayer you suggested, but debian-multimedia.org seems to
simply point me back to the debian apt repositories.
--
Haines Brown, KB1GRM
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