Re: missing codecs.conf

[steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>]

Haines Brown wrote:
> 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. 
>   
hi,

sorry: i forgot one thing: with fakeroot you can build easily a debian 
package yourself, from the mplayer tarball.

regards,

steef

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