Weird mplayer apt-get problem

[c_dog]

Originally Posted by volfro I decided to ditch Mplayer and go with VLC, as I've had good experience with it in Windows, and know it's reliable. Now, the DVD gets mounted if there's a DVD in the drive (wasn't happening before), and I can play videos, but I get no audio. DVDs won't play; the window resizes for a second, then closes. Suggestions, anybody?

HAL and Gnome Volume Manager seem the be working together again in the past few days

Try shutting down the esd sound daemon 'System>Preferences>Sound> uncheck Enable sound startup' I'll assume you've got libcss2, libdvdread3, and libnav4 loaded. You won't get far on a encrypted DVD without them

[titus]

if you just do apt-get upgrade then try to install it should work. Did for me.

[volfro]

Well, everything works, for the most part. Just that jerky DVD issue and delayed sound in general, not just .mov files. Thank you all for your help though time to start another thread

[desheikh]

I managed to install mplayer.. just disabled nerim.net servers
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list -> apt-get update -> apt-get upgrade -> apt-get install mplayer

[zwaardmeester]

Originally Posted by desheikh I managed to install mplayer.. just disabled nerim.net servers gedit /etc/apt/sources.list -> apt-get update -> apt-get upgrade -> apt-get install mplayer

This doesn't work for me.. I need the nerim.net server

leo@zwaardmeester:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mplayer

[speedman]

Originally Posted by zwaardmeester This doesn't work for me.. I need the nerim.net server

I take it you don't have the Ubuntu multiverse repository listed in /etc/apt/sources.list?

As you can see it is available there:

chris@i8500:~ $ apt-cache show mplayer-586
Package: mplayer-586
Priority: extra
Section: multiverse/graphics

You might want to double check your sources.list against this:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse

HTH


Regards,

SM


EDIT - fixed a typo.

[zwaardmeester]

Yes that's it! Everything's working now finally...

[Virtual DarKness]

Originally Posted by volfro The force version option worked. It installed, but it won't actually play any movies. The program just crashes.

Hi,
I had the same problem but fixed opening gmplayer and then in the preferences -> codecs I set "Win32/VfWex video codecs" as video codec family..
(this way [I suppose] it uses the w32codecs..)

hope it helps

bye,
Giovanni.

[speedman]

Originally Posted by zwaardmeester Yes that's it! Everything's working now finally...

Good deal.


Regards,

SM