Re: what's the best media player ?
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:35:33 +0800
lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> sorry, supposed to send to list.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: what's the best media player ?
> To: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Walter Hurry
> <walterhurry@lavabit.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:44:16 +0800, lina wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> which media player is your favoriate and love to recommend.
> >>
> >> I have a problem in using movie player, it's kinda of funny when
> >> open some song with it, all the process just being killed and came
> >> to login interface. (more like the new-started laptop without
> >> truely re-start).
> >>
> >> Thanks with best regards,
> >
> > mplayer, gxine, gnome-mplayer, vlc, totem. They all work very well
> > indeed with pretty much anything you throw at them, provided you
> > have the codecs installed. Take your pick.
>
> my laptop is undesirable weird.
>
> I installed the mplayer, when I
> use $ mplayer some.mp4
>
> it's just crashed, jump to login interface.
> the same as the vlc media player.
> $ vlc some.mp4
>
>
> # aptitude install codecs
> Couldn't find package "codecs". However, the following
> packages contain "codecs" in their name:
> python2.7-cjkcodecs libk3b6-extracodecs python3.1-cjkcodecs
> python3.2-cjkcodecs python2.6-cjkcodecs
>
> I don't know which one I should choose.
>
> and I even don't know how to examine,
>
> why it's just jump to login, and everything becomes so new.
It sounds like your X server is crashing, possibly when the media
player accesses the XVIDEO extension. To rule out the player, try:
$ mplayer -vo x11 filename.mp4
or
$ mplayer -vo null filename.mp4
If the file plays correctly (the second command will give you sound,
but no video), then you have a broken X server/driver. Check your
Xorg and Xsession logs.
--
Paul Saunders
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