Re: missing codecs.conf
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:47:51PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:07:57 -0400, Haines Brown (brownh@hartford-hwp.com) wrote:
> > 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'.
I use vlc and it just works.
Since some libs (dvdlibwhatever) are in debian-multimedia but they can't
be listed as dependancies, they are listed as recommends.
Add debian-multimedia.org to your sources.list, update, install the d-m
keyring package and update again, then browse aptitude to vlc (or
whatever) and see what is now recommended.
Doug.
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