Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?
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Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else experienced mplayer generating Fatal Error "Error
>> opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device" after adding
>> debian-multimedia.org to sources.list and performing the subsequent Smart
>> Upgrades? I'm trying to figure out if that's the cause; since other
>> machines I have without debian-multimedia.org in the sources.list tab play
>> the same .mov files fine I'm suspecting this. I've tried various tweaks I
>> found on-line to the /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf file for the vo section but
>> nothing worked. I'll be re-doing the installation for a friend and wanted
>> to avoid breaking mplayer if possible.
>>
>
>
> I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on
> Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same
> machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list,
> and mplayer plays the .mov files just fine.
>
> Wanted to share in case anyone else has this problem.
>
> Mark
>
Adding debian-multimedia.org breaks a couple of things. Including vlc. I
don't know why they don't fix their repository.
I'm curious if many people use debian-multimedia. Is it trustworthy?
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