[HLUG] Videos - unable to view.

[Benjamin Weber]

I just downloaded the file, it plays fine with xine/mplayer or their frontends 
with w32codecs installed

SuSE rpm for w32codecs here, it may work for mandrake I don't know.
http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/9.3/i586/w32codec-all-20050412-0.pm.0.i586.rpm

Benji


On Sunday 31 July 2005 17:16, Noel McG wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> This is the first file,    go-open-episode-01.mp4
>
> On the Windows box Media Player doesn't want to know so I have installed
> DivXPlay.  When I try to play through that, the progress bar shows that the
> file is being read but nothing appears in the screen, also no sound [if
> there is any!].
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noel.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk>
> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.
>
> > OK What is the format of the files.?????? If you cant open them Id expect
> > that you havent got the correct codec.
> > Have you tried opening the files in your media player ? if so does it
> > play or do you get errors?????
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Noel McG [mailto:etwell at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: 31 July 2005 11:33 AM
> > To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> > Subject: Re: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I did not make plain the problem.  I have not burnt these files to a DVD
>
> as
>
> > I do not have a suitable writer.  So these files are currently on the
> > desktop and I would like to play them from there if at all possible.
> > Clicking on them has no effect, other than to bring up the 'associate
>
> with'
>
> > routine.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Noel.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk>
> > To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:17 PM
> > Subject: RE: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.
> >
> > > Try http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ this has all the codec
>
> you
>
> > > need to run windows media files & mpg2 files DVDs ect.
> > > The file you will be interested in is
> > > http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm its
> >
> > about
> >
> > > the 5th from the bottom...
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Benjamin Weber [mailto:b.weber at warwick.ac.uk]
> > > Sent: 30 July 2005 11:28 AM
> > > To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> > > Subject: Re: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Noel,
> > >
> > > Xine or MPlayer (or one of their frontends, kaffeine for example)
> > > should play
> > > it.
> > >
> > > You might need to install w32codecs from a package repository for your
> > > distribution. The packman yast repository for SuSE has these packages
> > > of questionable legality, Not using mandrake I don't know what
> > > repository
>
> you
>
> > > would use but i'm told http://plf.zarb.org/ should have them.
> > >
> > > benji
> > >
> > > On Saturday 30 July 2005 06:22, Noel McG. wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I have recently downloaded from
> > > > http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/news/download_go_open/ some
> > > > MPEG4 video files.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone suggest a programme or way to view these on my Linux
>
> machine
>
> > > > running Mandriva 10.2 please.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Noel.
> > >
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