Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Charles, On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:54:57PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: With the arrival of mplayer in Debian, I wanted to try if it was able to play a movie (I did not manage with other programs). Unfortunately, it dit not work, for instance with the following command: mplayer

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:33, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Charles, On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:54:57PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: With the arrival of mplayer in Debian, I wanted to try if it was able to play a movie (I did not manage with other programs). Unfortunately, it dit not

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:36:20PM +0100, Børge Holen wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:33, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello Charles, On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:54:57PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: With the arrival of mplayer in Debian, I wanted to try if it was able to play a

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Børge Holen
Then put the complain where it belongs, witch is not the mplayer team. Didn't he also mention rc3, witch is old On Sunday 05 November 2006 13:33, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: do not discourage people from filing bugs. He used an official debian package, and it failed to work (as I understood,

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:33:47PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:36:20PM +0100, Børge Holen wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:33, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Please report this as a bug against mplayer (and also the totem problem you experience). Simply paste

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Børge Holen
On Sunday 05 November 2006 13:47, Diego Biurrun wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:33:47PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:36:20PM +0100, Børge Holen wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:33, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Please report this as a bug against mplayer (and

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:56:21PM +0100, Børge Holen wrote: On Sunday 05 November 2006 13:47, Diego Biurrun wrote: But is there a bug? It works flawlessly for me. Plus, since the package is so new I would suggest waiting a few weeks until it has settled a bit. Bug, nah, he's just

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:11:55PM +0200, Børge Holen a écrit : download source from mplayerhq.hu, compiling is explained in the docs, and is very easy. Dear Børge and Helge, thank you for your help. I tried with a mplayer compiled from source, updated all the packages mplayer depends on, and

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-05 Thread Diego Biurrun
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:07:33AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I tried with a mplayer compiled from source, updated all the packages mplayer depends on, and intalled the libxv, but it did not work. I then sent a bug (http://bugs.debian.org/397143) and the maintainer found out that I needed

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:14:25PM +1100, David Howe a écrit : I have been using Totem on both this Mac mini and my Titanium G4 to play mpeg4 movies for at least 6 months or so.. I don't recall having to do anything dramatic besides apt-get install totem. sorbet【Desktop】$ totem *** glibc

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Børge Holen
What error does mplayer put out. Mplayer works on close to anything =) mplayer works just as good on linux/ppc On Saturday 04 November 2006 09:02, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:14:25PM +1100, David Howe a écrit : I have been using Totem on both this Mac mini and my Titanium

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Børge Holen
You have no video output? where did you get that package mplayer? you have not compiled it yerself? what video card is available in the machine? On Saturday 04 November 2006 10:21, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:08:28AM +0200, Børge Holen a écrit : What error does mplayer put

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:23:54AM +0200, Børge Holen a écrit : You have no video output? where did you get that package mplayer? you have not compiled it yerself? what video card is available in the machine? sorbet【dic】$ lspci | grep nV :f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Børge Holen
download source from mplayerhq.hu, compiling is explained in the docs, and is very easy. And no, there is no such official debian package. mplayer as in www.mplayerhq.hu has liscense compability issues with debian. atleast that is what used to be the issue. Maby not anymore, dunno. But as it

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Paul Scott
Børge Holen wrote: download source from mplayerhq.hu, compiling is explained in the docs, and is very easy. And no, there is no such official debian package. There is now. At least in sid. I believe it just appeared. It worked in a quick test. This was on an x86. My old powerpc hasn't

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-04 Thread Børge Holen
sid... got some problems... but its not mplayer fault. The fact tis hat mplayer has no useful output on yer computer, have you installed the xv libs? On Saturday 04 November 2006 18:16, Paul Scott wrote: Børge Holen wrote: download source from mplayerhq.hu, compiling is explained in the docs,

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-03 Thread David Howe
I have been using Totem on both this Mac mini and my Titanium G4 to play mpeg4 movies for at least 6 months or so.. I don't recall having to do anything dramatic besides apt-get install totem. :) david Charles Plessy wrote: Hi all, With the arrival of mplayer in Debian, I wanted to try if

Re: Playing a movie on ppc.

2006-11-03 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi, have you looked at ? http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ regards, Eugen Paiuc On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:54 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi all, With the arrival of mplayer in Debian, I wanted to try if it was able to play a movie (I did not manage with other programs). [snip] --