Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:33 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Larry Stotler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Apr 3, 2007 11:41 AM
>> Subject: Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work
>> To: dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>
>> On 4/3/07, dwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I get the program to read the dvd? what audio and video codecs
>>> should I use?
>>>
>> MPlayer works best when compiled from source. Go here:
>>
>
> That's all well and good if you like to get down and dirty :-) However,
> on several machines I have just relied on 'smart' package manager with
> the repositories of packman and guru enabled. All you have to do is
> '#smart install mplayer w32codecs-all', or some such, and you're good to
> go with all video formats.
>
> Gavin
>
>
My major problem was that Mplayer would not load the disk. I'm not sure
if I did it correctly, but the disk wouldn't play. I kept getting a
seek error. Anyway, I had a hardware issue with VLC and once I took
care of that all worked well.
Jan had mentioned a multimedia set up, but all I really want to do is
listen to the radio, and vlc does that for me. I tried Gstreamer,
couldn't get it to find stations, tried Kaffeine and no luck there.
Felix mentioned having problems with VLC, but I downloaded my
installation package from videolan.org. There were easy to install
instructions and it works fine for me. Could it be that the Packman
package is broken somewhere? Or did I really miss what Felix was trying
to say?
I don't have the video card on this old machine that will really handle
full motion video. Maybe one day I'll build a new machine that will
have the video card and enough RAM to do such a thing. But for now as
long as I can listen to my jazz stations, I'm a happy Linux camper.
Cheers,
Dwain
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