Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:58:22 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:11:11 -0600
> > Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Celejar wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:25:16 +0000
> >>> Phil Requirements <simultaneous@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 2010-12-23 09:09:56 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>>>> /Thu Dec 23-09:05:15# mplayer E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv
> >>>>> (snip)
> >>>>> Playing E6ROSTqm2KQ.flv.
> >>>>> TiVo file format detected.
> >>>>> MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
> >>>>> MPEG: FATAL: EOF while searching for sequence header.
> >>>>> Video: Cannot read properties.
> >>>> "TiVo file format detected" is what went wrong. It cannot read the
> >>>> properties of the video because it has wrongly detected the video.
> >>>> On my system, playing one of those flv files looks like this:
> >>>>
> >>>>     mplayer youtube_9sJUDx7iEJw.flv
> >>>>     (snip)
> >>>>     Playing youtube_JMSepxmZQNg.flv.
> >>>>     libavformat file format detected.
> >>>>      
> >>>> Do you have libavcodec installed? On my system it is libavcodec52.
> >>> See:
> >>>
> >>> http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2006-March/058756.html
> >>>
> >>> The problem does seem to be a missing libavformat.  Where'd you get
> >>> that mplayer build from?  Try a newer one, or build your own?
> >> http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/package/mplayer-nogui.php
> > 
> > I'm using mplayer from dmo, and it works fine with all YouTube videos
> > (although I don't use the nogui version).
> > 
> > Can you give 'apt-cache policy mplayer'?
> >
> 
> 
> hugo@Debian:/$ apt-cache policy mplayer-nogui
> mplayer-nogui:
>    Installed: 2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.1
>    Candidate: 2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.1
>    Version table:
>   *** 2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.1 0
>          500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid/main i386 Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Okay, I seem to have the same version installed.  I'm pretty much out
of idea, except for the one raised by Phil above, about libavformat /
libavcodec.  Do you have those packages installed (libavformat52,
libavcodec52)?

Celejar
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