On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> How do you claim that "mp3 not playing" is related to "DVD not >> playing"? Did you even read the original question? > > thanks omkar for a good question. > > mp3, xvid, mpeg2, mpeg1, og, and i suppose about two dozen more, are > codecs, that encode and decode audio, video, or images.
I know that. What I meant to ask that your reply wasn't fit for the query the original poster had asked. > hope you realize that mp3 really stands for 'mpeg 1 Layer 3" so it is > related to video as well. No. Mp3 is not related to video. Mp3 is an audio codec. Period. > i've tried to often enable support for tricky codecs and/or > fileformats. for instance, quicktime, or try to install special > software to convert (transcode) one stream into another, such as > convert a flash video into a 3gp file for mobiles, or convert mpeg2 to > divx and so on. or extract and encode an audio-track from or for a > video, into mp3. and much more. > > sometimes, this entails installing software and utilities that work in > the background, such as xine, ffmpeg, gstreamer, etc. etc. > > sooner or later, these packages start conflicting with one another. in > getting video transcoding to work in one way, i will find that mp3 > playback has got broken in another software. or getting ffmpeg to work > with some app, video in totem or some other player stops working. I am hearing such complain first time that xine, gstreamer, ffmpeg conflict with each other. Have you filed bugs? > for example, i recently installed this software under ubuntu, to > convert back and forth between my pc and mobile: > > http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm > > but damn! it broke a lot of other things that were working normally. > took me a week recently to get some things working again on my computer. > and still a few remain broken. > >> >> By the way feisty is now more than an year old version of Ubuntu. > > sure, but if you keep 'updating' the system does a neat job. thing > that were broken or had bugs just get sorted out in a few weeks or > months. am quite pleased with how it just works. > some things are just not fixable in fiesty, so found workarounds. for > example, audacity (an audio editing software) would not display menus > or dialog-boxes. the text disappeared. people on launchpad pointed out > a problem with locale. so while launching audacity, i just switch > local to 'us' and continue working. Yes. Things don't get sorted automatically. Someone has to file a bug. And just because feisty is working fine for you does not mean you should recommends people to install an year old operating system. I hope you understand. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
