On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:20:41 +1300 Douglas Royds wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >Douglas Royds wrote: > > > > > >>Nick Rout wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I have to say that mplayer should work fine on Douglas's machine. It > >>>works fine on my lower powered desktop and my 900MHz media computer. I > >>>suspect that the packages he is using aren't right. > >>> > >>> > >>I'd still quite like to get mplayer going, as I like the look of it - > >>it's fully "skinnable", and Totem is pretty tragic, graphically > >>speaking. Also, mplayer comes with the full 9 yards of ripping and encoding. > >> > >> > >where did you get your mplayer from? a package or did you compile it? > > > > > From Ubuntu "multiverse", mplayer-586. Don't know whether this was the > right choice: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/graphics/mplayer-586 > > Thanks for the links - I'll take a look.
if you have the machine handy, type mplayer in an xterm and report back the output. also cat /proc/cpuinfo how much RAM? > > Douglas. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ======================================================================= > This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended > addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be > the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or > lost by reason of this transmission. > If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our > apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no > other act on the email. > Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been > altered or corrupted during transmission. > ======================================================================= -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
