Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Sunday 2005-05-08 at 03:05 -0700, Chaitanya Krishna A wrote:

> Now I am able to play the files on SuSE 9.1 Pro using
5B5B5B5B5B> Mplayer.
> 
> I had to scp the files from a windows machine to my
> SuSE and changed the file permissions to -rwxr-xr-x.
> And then I am able to play the files with Mplayer.
> 
> It would be interesting to note exactly why this has
> been done.
> 
> The file was a read only. When I opened it on a
> windows machine and tried to change the read only
> attribute, it didn't allow me to do it. So I just
> scp'd it to my linux machine and in the scp window
> itself I changed the permissions on the linux machine
> to -rwxr-xr-x came to my linux machine and then played
> it with Mplayer and then it played fine.

You also said before:

>> I say file * on the command line and it gives this: 
>> avseq01.dat: ERROR: cannot read `avseq01.dat'
>> (Input/output error)

I'd think there was some kind of read error on that file. When you managed 
to copy it, the error was cleared, and it played. What does "file *" say 
now?

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson