On Thursday, 1 July 2004 13:24, Hans du Plooy wrote:

http://packman.links2linux.org/?query=xine&action=search

line-lib and line-ui from this page should sort you out

aaargh! Typo, sorry! xine-lib and xine-ui -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

Richard Atcheson wrote:

On Thursday 01 July 2004 06:19 am, Sharpe, Richard wrote:

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I am trying to find a Linux based DVD movie player to run on my SuSE 9.1 installation the one provided with the distro is crippled. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Just went through this when I upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1. Easiest was to go to Packman and get all the stuff for MPlayer. I use apt for that, then go find the libdvdcss-1.2.8 file and spend the next two hours watching a new movie. CAVEAT: If you use apt remember to use caps as in 'MPlayer' otherwise packman wont help.

One thing you might consider is to remove any remnants of mplayer which may have been installed from the distro before installing the packman stuff.

Cant hurt! ra

I have also installed and used VideoLan. It solves problems accessing streaming audio from certain online radio broadcasts e.g. www.hughhewitt.com as well as handling some video materials MPlayer doesn't. With both installed, plus Kaffine, xine, RealPlayer, etc. I can now hear and view about anything! Just FYI ... doc

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:40:30 -0500, Richard Atcheson wrote:

What about .wmv files? Even with the w32 codecs I can find, I find that a lot of those files are unreadable with all the Linux players I have tried. So much so that now I simply stop trying to open them.

have you tried mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) ?

In a previous message, Richard Atcheson wrote:

What about .wmv files? Even with the w32 codecs I can find, I find that a lot of those files are unreadable with all the Linux players I have tried. So much so that now I simply stop trying to open them. ra

Download the w32codecs rpm from packman - I never have problems with video files since installing these, whether wmv, quicktime, avi or whatever. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

On Thursday 01 July 2004 03:48 pm, C Hamel wrote:

That is a bit weird... I have been opening them w/MPlayer & Xine w/o any problem.  I'm using totally Packman's files. -- ...CH

I guess I should be thankful for the things that work flawlessly and not worry about the others, but that's not our nature is it? Maybe it's the sequence of loading the codec vs library rpms??? For some reason my Mplayer chokes on some .wmv files. I just loaded the trailers from the ms site and they mostly wont play except on the ms player on crossover office. Oh well, it's always something, isnt it? ra

On Thursday 01 July 2004 05:14 pm, Richard Atcheson wrote:

On Thursday 01 July 2004 03:48 pm, C Hamel wrote:

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That is a bit weird... I have been opening them w/MPlayer & Xine w/o any problem.  I'm using totally Packman's files. -- ...CH

I guess I should be thankful for the things that work flawlessly and not worry about the others, but that's not our nature is it?

Maybe it's the sequence of loading the codec vs library rpms??? For some reason my Mplayer chokes on some .wmv files. I just loaded the trailers from the ms site and they mostly wont play except on the ms player on crossover office.

Oh well, it's always something, isnt it? ra ==========

wmv files can be a bit tricky and irritating Rich, so don't be surprised if you run into a problem or two with them. Usually kaffeine takes a bit of time to buffer and convert these, using the provided codecs we have. If you waited only a few seconds or even a minute, then wait a bit longer they should probably start up. That is what I have found with most of the .wmv files at least. Some will start pretty quickly and those may be some older ones, but most I have run into take a bit longer to get going especially the streaming types. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...