mplayer
Dave Feustel
dfeustel at mindspring.com
Sun Feb 15 18:49:18 UTC 2009
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:35:04PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Sunday 15 February 2009 17:36, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > Is mplayer available for F9?
> >
> > If not, what mpg player is used instead?
> >
> > Do any players work without KDE?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Hi Dave.
>
> I havn't got F9 booted up at the mo, but I got mplayer from either livna, or
> freshrpms, both now replaced by rpmfusion, where you should be able to get
> Mplayer.
I got mplayer from rpmfusion. Now I am trying to play an mpg file called
pingpongdog.mpg, but I get error messages saying I need to install
missing audio-visual codecs. When I select 'search for codecs', they are
not found. Is there a site from which the missing codecs can be downloaded?
> If you need to play encrypted dvd's, you will have to get libdvdcss
> (libdvdcss2) from either livna, or freshrpms (some legal issues stop
> rpmfusion from making the library available). I also saw some problems with
> including w32codecs package when reading posts from the rpmfusion list, so
> you may need to get those directly from the mplayer site, otherwise some
> stuff won't work.
>
> Vlc, Mplayer, or Totem should work ok without KDE. Totem will probably need
> extra gstreamer plugins to be installed ( gstreamer-plugins-good,
> gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-ugly, etc). have a look in Yumex to
> see what is available. I havn't had much success with Totem, but have got it
> playing dvd's on Ubuntu Intrepid, which is Gnome based.
>
> 2¢ worth of Sunday evening rambling.
>
> Nigel.
>
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