Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[elustran]

Just did some Googling. The Ubuntu bug report concerning this problem is here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...lc/+bug/223762

The Debian bug report may have a possible solution:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462715

Hope that helps.

Nathan

I haven't been able to figure out what to do with the 'pseudocode' given in the possible solution, so I think I'm just going to try using a different player for the time being, and hope that vlc gets updated. I like the features of vlc, but mplayer seems like it's working fine. For now, I think the simplest solution will be the best.

Thanks for helping out.
Next task: samba

[FrancesL]

No I was using FF with the how-to open and copy and paste into a terminal. Syanptic was closed.

Edit:I have a bigger problem now..I followed the How to using copy and paste method into terminal window. Then ran update manager, all seemed fine untill I restarted after having shutdown. I now have no panels, I have desktop without panels, I cannot get a terminal to open with <Alt-F2> nor with right click Launcher. nothing nada zip..I am using a windows (hmm) machine to send this message..before all this I had taken the time to download Hardy ISO and burn to CD...Is there any sense in doing a clean reinstall? I have no idea what has gone wrong, but plainly something has. I was running fine on Gutsy.
Edit: I can use backspace-alt-ctrl to get to welcome which has option select session can I do anything there?

[Peter_72]

Hi Nathan,

I followed your guide and as far as I can see everything works except for two things:
at www.apple.com/trailers I get a grey box with sound but no graphics,
flash games don't seem to work properly, e.g. at www.lumosity.com where I have a subscription graphics and sound are out of sync which is really annoying.

But great guide anyway!

[ubuntu-freak]

Hi Nathan,

I followed your guide and as far as I can see everything works except for two things:
at www.apple.com/trailers I get a grey box with sound but no graphics,
flash games don't seem to work properly, e.g. at www.lumosity.com where I have a subscription graphics and sound are out of sync which is really annoying.

But great guide anyway!

Did streaming apple.com trailers ever work in Hardy or Gutsy? Try disabling effects in System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Effects and see how it goes then. Not sure how to help with the Adobe Flash problem, it's not secret that there are some issues. The libflashsupport package should help though, but I presume you installed that while following my how-to. Doesn't help that Flash in Linux is't GPU accelarated. Add your vote to the bug reports and make them take note.

Nathan

[ChevyDude]

I don't know if this is posted before, but when I update the latest version of libdvdcss, firefox crash when a flash video is launched.
Any way to revert it?
Read YouTube.

Never mind!

[timzak]

Nathan,

I managed to get those Real videos running through Mplayer, but the screen size takes up the whole browser window so the video is extremely pixelated. I can't seem to find a way to shrink the video size. It doesn't open in a separate Mplayer window, it opens inside the browser, but takes up the entire browser window, with no visible option to reduce video size. I noticed you only mention installing RealPlayer in the PRE-Hardy section. Does this mean that it's not compatible with Hardy yet?

Thanks.

[Peter_72]

Thanks for the reply.

I get apple trailers to work if I choose X11 video output.

And I voted to get the bugs fixed.

[Peter_72]

Thanks for the reply.

I get apple trailers to work if I choose X11 video output.

And I voted to get the bugs fixed.

edit: sorry for the double post!

[ubuntu-freak]

Nathan,

I managed to get those Real videos running through Mplayer, but the screen size takes up the whole browser window so the video is extremely pixelated. I can't seem to find a way to shrink the video size. It doesn't open in a separate Mplayer window, it opens inside the browser, but takes up the entire browser window, with no visible option to reduce video size. I noticed you only mention installing RealPlayer in the PRE-Hardy section. Does this mean that it's not compatible with Hardy yet?

Thanks.

That was with Gecko Media Player yeah? How did you finally get it to open within the browser?

Well, mplayerplug-in could be told to ignore Real Media streams, Gecko Media Player can't, but it performs even better than mplayerplug-in did. I won't add the new Realplayer to my guide until there is a quality deb and I've tested it's performance.

Nathan

[la3875]

Great job! Regardless I'm still having trouble with DVD playback. I've installed the Ubuntu restricted packages and Medibuntu but still no love. see the output from terminal when I try to install VLC directly -

jeff@gutsy-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 0.8.6.release.c-0ubuntu5.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


Any advice is appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to put this guide together!