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I had an enjoyable (!) couple of hours working my way through this yesterday. First I installed a whole shedload of -devel packages,
Isn't it fun? ;-) I find that I have to install pretty much all of the devel packages now. I like to play/experiment with new apps on the weekends. This means lots of the configure, make thing interspersed with RMP hunting.
various audio possibilities now, I still have no sound - if I run "gmplayer" I get the exact same message that the codec can't be found. If I run "gmplayer -ao sdl", I get lots of stuff scrolling down the screen, and then a message that my PC is too slow to run this (Duron 1.3MHz, 256Mb RAM). Any suggestions?
I also get the "too slow" message from time to time. I just ignore it. I have an Athalon 1GHz with 704MB RAM... should be more than enough to play a movie. Hmmm now that I think of it.. I get the error message when I play a movie that is incomplete - like when I check a .part file in eDonkey to see if it is actually what the filename claims it to be... or when I play a file that is missing an index or has some minor corruption in the file somewhere. As for suggestions... don't really know. What codec error are you getting? What is the gist of the stuff scrolling past when you do the gmplayer -ao sdl thing? C.