Re: Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?
On Wed, 08 May 2013 20:34:23 -0600
Paul Condon <pecondon1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze
> about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times
> before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This
> install went very smoothly, but ... I just noticed today that I can't
> play video clips in Iceweasel, no moving picture and no sound. And in
> Google Chrome, I can get the moving picture, but no sound. When it
> was running Squeeze, video clips were working fine, but I recall
> there was lots of magic in getting Squeeze video to work long ago.
What kind of video clips? I suspect you may need to install
flashplugin-nonfree for flash support on the web.
> This time I was hoping for a 'automagic' install, and until today
> when I discovered the video problem it had been fully automagic. What
> should I look for? Perhaps a package dependency is missing. Or what?
> What is the names of the video/sound packages that are used with
> Xfce4? (Come to think of it, I was running Gnome2 under Squeeze (and
> I don't remember tha package names from then)) As I remember, there
> were many competing video/sound packages with not much to distinguish
> them except that some worked for some people and others worked for
> other people. What is the situation now?
I use vlc myself for audio and video. It will play most anything AV
related.
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