Question about movie players - AVI, QT and DVDs
I wondered if anyone has had success with any of the various movie players in being able to play AVI files and/or QuickTime. So far, Xine and Kaffeine don't allow me to play the video. Sound works fine through these players, but no video. I figure I'm probably just missing one or more packages, but what I've located so far doesn't seem to work with x86_64. I haven't been successful in getting MPlayer to install, since it's not part of the SuSE distribution. Ultimately, I'd like to be able to play AVI, QT and MPEG video, and also DVDs - although from what I'm reading, there's a licensing issue with DVD players so SuSE doesn't ship Xine ready to do that. Just looking for any guidance on what to try, especially if there's a recommended 'all-in-one' solution. Thanks! Mark
Mark, There probably is a FAQ for this somewhere, but anyway... Try the Packman multimedia packages at http://packman.links2linux.org If you want 64-bit packages, you need to compile these from source. To get the source to play nice with the SuSE library layout, use: ./configure --enable-libsuffix=64 I am currently using xine and kaffeine built in this way, although I have also recently downloaded SuSE patches for xine-lib. I found that the make for xine-lib-1-rc3c succeeds but make for xine-lib-1-rc4a fails at layer12.c with messages like: /tmp/cceb8RCY.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cceb8RCY.s:702: Error: Incorrect register `%rax' used with `l' suffix I have not yet reported this on the xine mailing list. Since the time of this failure, xine-lib-1-rc5 has been released. I have not yet tried xine-lib-1-rc5. Best regards On Friday 25 June 2004 23:13, Creamer, Mark wrote:
I wondered if anyone has had success with any of the various movie players in being able to play AVI files and/or QuickTime.
So far, Xine and Kaffeine don't allow me to play the video. Sound works fine through these players, but no video. I figure I'm probably just missing one or more packages, but what I've located so far doesn't seem to work with x86_64. I haven't been successful in getting MPlayer to install, since it's not part of the SuSE distribution.
Ultimately, I'd like to be able to play AVI, QT and MPEG video, and also DVDs - although from what I'm reading, there's a licensing issue with DVD players so SuSE doesn't ship Xine ready to do that.
Just looking for any guidance on what to try, especially if there's a recommended 'all-in-one' solution. Thanks!
Mark
I have managed to compile vlc (www.videolan.org) with full support for most formats under suse 9.1 in full 64bit mode. THis is because VLC does not use any closed source codecs. Beware if you want to this set asside a few hours. You will need to grab alot of dependancys and build them ... Works good for me except for some reason sound with dvd does not work. I think this may be a problem with a52dec and 64bit. Hopefully next stable release of vlc/a52 dec willl fix. On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 14:25, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
Mark, There probably is a FAQ for this somewhere, but anyway... Try the Packman multimedia packages at http://packman.links2linux.org If you want 64-bit packages, you need to compile these from source. To get the source to play nice with the SuSE library layout, use: ./configure --enable-libsuffix=64 I am currently using xine and kaffeine built in this way, although I have also recently downloaded SuSE patches for xine-lib. I found that the make for xine-lib-1-rc3c succeeds but make for xine-lib-1-rc4a fails at layer12.c with messages like:
/tmp/cceb8RCY.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cceb8RCY.s:702: Error: Incorrect register `%rax' used with `l' suffix
I have not yet reported this on the xine mailing list. Since the time of this failure, xine-lib-1-rc5 has been released. I have not yet tried xine-lib-1-rc5. Best regards
On Friday 25 June 2004 23:13, Creamer, Mark wrote:
I wondered if anyone has had success with any of the various movie players in being able to play AVI files and/or QuickTime.
So far, Xine and Kaffeine don't allow me to play the video. Sound works fine through these players, but no video. I figure I'm probably just missing one or more packages, but what I've located so far doesn't seem to work with x86_64. I haven't been successful in getting MPlayer to install, since it's not part of the SuSE distribution.
Ultimately, I'd like to be able to play AVI, QT and MPEG video, and also DVDs - although from what I'm reading, there's a licensing issue with DVD players so SuSE doesn't ship Xine ready to do that.
Just looking for any guidance on what to try, especially if there's a recommended 'all-in-one' solution. Thanks!
Mark
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Creamer, Mark -
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Paul C. Leopardi