Hi just a shirt while back i received a cd full of short and some long videos - .wmv. .avi , ,mpeg some .mov as well.
Recently i also upgraded to 7.04 and tried to install many audio and video codecs and players so as not have any problems when i got home (to a narrow and incosistent band internet connection) So on trying to play some of the avi's i get a few error messages which are somewhat like this - proper plugin not found - correct demux not found etc etc so i check synaptic and run a search for the supposed errant missing codecs and other assorted files and find some familiar sounding ones not installed. Now my question is how can i know what ALL i need to install to make sure all the most popular formats run. Its not that avi files don't work - some work well and some don't so i checked the properties and looked at the encoding format - the ones that work are mepg based the ones that don't work are DV based !!! *** I tried running the misbehaving .avi file through Kino (video editor) and well it worked better than any of the media players - good rendering of colors as well. So does kino know something that the other players don't Finally - there was a post on not being able to copy .dat files (presumably) from a VCD. The solution was to check the file copy limit (using ulimit) so i tried copying a VCD .dat files and kept getting an error - it can't be my copy limit as its unlimited. It can't be a cd error because i copied it through windows and it worked liked a charm. Worse Ubuntu apart from refusing to copy refused to even play (obviously) but after copying it through windows Ubuntu played the same .dat file like a charm So all in all with my video woes the following are my questions / request Question 1 what am i missing Request 1 Would some kind soul please make a list of all the codecs, lib files players etc one may require to make sure video works well - thanks ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
