Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto

[mkolars]

Hi there,

i have tried several times to install vlc media player in ubuntu 7.10 but always get following error messages.

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administrator@Mark:~$ 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) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5) but it is not installable
Depends: ttf-dejavu but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

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Any ideas ??

Thanks,
Mark

[ubuntu-freak]

Hi there,

i have tried several times to install vlc media player in ubuntu 7.10 but always get following error messages.

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administrator@Mark:~$ 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) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsdl-image1.2 (>= 1.2.5) but it is not installable
Depends: ttf-dejavu but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

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Any ideas ??

Thanks,
Mark

Did you try the commands in Part 1 "Did You Have Errors" section? Try this:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Nathan

[Xris Benedict]

Hi,

I have followed your instructions but can still not stream my favorite radio: www.106fm.co.il .

Do you have an idea what I should do?

[ubuntu-freak]

Hi,

I have followed your instructions but can still not stream my favorite radio: www.106fm.co.il .

Do you have an idea what I should do?

That's strange, worked first time for me. I'm listening to it right now using the MPlayer plugin. Give it time to load and try again.

Nathan

[Xris Benedict]

That's strange, worked first time for me. I'm listening to it right now using the MPlayer plugin. Give it time to load and try again.

Nathan

You have to forgive me. I'm a newbie in linux.
I wait for the stream (it write that it triesto connect) but after a few second it comes back with a "stopped" response.

How do I specify which plugin should open this specific stream? I am not sure the firefox uses mplayer for it.

Thanks for the swift reply ,
Xris

[ubuntu-freak]

Just tried "noembed=1" and it made a vast improvement. The window no longer disappears! Slight issues are that it won't go full screen and I'm still getting zombie processes and sleeping processes, but overall I'm very, very pleased. Thank you so much.

Made some big changes to Part 2, so check that out. I've switched to using Gecko Media Player instead of Mozilla MPlayer and it works wonderfully at the moment.

Nathan

[Xris Benedict]

You have to forgive me. I'm a newbie in linux.
I wait for the stream (it write that it triesto connect) but after a few second it comes back with a "stopped" response.

How do I specify which plugin should open this specific stream? I am not sure the firefox uses mplayer for it.

Thanks for the swift reply ,
Xris

I have tried the change to the Gecko media player and here too, the streams starts connecting and stops after a few seconds.

Thanks,
Xris

[ubuntu-freak]

You have to forgive me. I'm a newbie in linux.
I wait for the stream (it write that it triesto connect) but after a few second it comes back with a "stopped" response.

How do I specify which plugin should open this specific stream? I am not sure the firefox uses mplayer for it.

Thanks for the swift reply ,
Xris

Firefox can't use other plugins if they aren't installed. Did you remove them as the how-to instructs? Like this:

sudo apt-get remove kaffeine-mozilla mozilla-mplayer mozilla-helix-player mozilla-plugin-vlc totem-mozilla xine-plugin

Nathan

[GranpaDan]

Ah good. I do wonder if it's Firefox. Might be worth reporting a bug to them and what you had to do as a workaround.

Nathan

I too am wondering if it is an issue with this latest beta version of Firefox, and not necessarily with Hardy. In another thread, where I was trying to get vlc as an option for playing embedded videos (like Youtube), (refer to thread:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...19#post4815519)
frodon suggested to add the "media player connectivity" extension, though as I tried to, I got a message that it is not compatible with the Firefox version 3.0b5.

[Nathan.Flow]

Great guide,
I have one problem.
When I try to play a dvd, with Xine UI. It gives me a funny error.
The source can't be read. Maby you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data(e.g: not disk in drive). (Error reading NAV packet.)

But it sure plays the begging intro of the disk.

Please help..
Thanks
by the way I use KDE, "kubuntu" 64 bit I know that their is a difference in the structure between ubuntu and kubuntu.