Using server to play video onto TV (yes, i know it's a strange setup)

[trash]

how did you get alsa and alsa-utils to install... i keep getting dependency problems??

[markdavidoff]

how did you get alsa and alsa-utils to install... i keep getting dependency problems??

sudo apt-get build-dep alsa alsa-utils

[markdavidoff]

i get fullscreen but really not sure how or why lol but here are the only 2 things different in out config..

vga=0x0314 as boot option(for whatever reason vga=0x0317 won't work for me)
and
scale=800:-3 anything higher than 800 doesn't work for me

no idea if this will help at all but i figured you wouldn't mind the bump

EDIT: forgot to mention i have no config file in ~/.mplayer

  VGA Resolution Codes for GRUB & Lilo
--- Depth --
Colors  bits  640x480  800×600  1024×768  1152×864  1280×1024  1600×1200
   256    8   vga=769  vga=771   vga=773   vga=353   vga=775    vga=796
 32000    ?   vga=784  vga=787   vga=790   vga= ?    vga=793    vga= ? 
 65000   16   vga=785  vga=788   vga=791   vga=355   vga=794    vga=798
 16.7M   24   vga=786  vga=789   vga=792   vga=795   vga=799

you can create your own config

nano /home/<username>/.mplayer/config

[markdavidoff]

To make sure you got all the codecs needed install the ubuntu-restricted extras meta package.

sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Jim

I installed that.

Still can't get 300.avi to work (I posted the Mplayer output when i mentioned this a few posts back)

works in vlc with acsii rendering though

[trash]

sudo apt-get build-dep alsa alsa-utils

i still get negativity lol, no source package available for alsa... will just have to go n get it from their site which is what i was avoiding form the begining haha.

yes I did try a couple of configs but just never got it right till finally i got what i needed without.. will probably want to tweak eventually but onething at a time lol

[markdavidoff]

i still get negativity lol, no source package available for alsa... will just have to go n get it from their site which is what i was avoiding form the begining haha.

yes I did try a couple of configs but just never got it right till finally i got what i needed without.. will probably want to tweak eventually but onething at a time lol

You may need to add or enable more sources in your repository list in /etc/apt/sources.list

look here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverg...ositories.html

don't forget to type:

sudo apt-get update

then try again

[trash]

You may need to add or enable more sources in your repository list in /etc/apt/sources.list

look here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverg...ositories.html

don't forget to type:

sudo apt-get update

then try again

I tried everything, got too frustrated and reinstalled the server. 2nd time around Alsa installed no problem.

[markdavidoff]

I installed the codecs

i also installed ffmpeg

still can't get 300.avi to play with mplayer

any help?

[markdavidoff]

For those who upgraded to ubuntu 8.10, don't forget that to get the new medibuntu repository, use:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

and then don't forget to:

sudo apt-get update

and then re-install medibuntu-keyring and w32codecs (i did anyways):

sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get install w32codecs

if things don't work, you may need to re-enable your framebuffer by adding vga=xxx to your /boot/grub/menu.list at the end of the kernel line

  VGA Resolution Codes for GRUB & Lilo
--- Depth --
Colors  bits  640x480  800×600  1024×768  1152×864  1280×1024  1600×1200
   256    8   vga=769  vga=771   vga=773   vga=353   vga=775    vga=796
 32000    ?   vga=784  vga=787   vga=790   vga= ?    vga=793    vga= ? 
 65000   16   vga=785  vga=788   vga=791   vga=355   vga=794    vga=798
 16.7M   24   vga=786  vga=789   vga=792   vga=795   vga=799