[HLUG] Videos - unable to view.

[Julian Robbins]

Noel McG wrote:

>Hello Dave,
>
>This is the first file,    go-open-episode-01.mp4
>  
>
Firstly, mp4 is the successor to mp3 by the look of it.

MPEG-4 was defined by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the 
working group within the International Organization for Standardization 
(ISO) that specified the widely adopted, Emmy Award-winning standards 
known as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. Hundreds of researchers around the world 
contributed to MPEG-4, which was finalized in 1998 and became an 
international standard in 2000.

Mplayer is one of the best Linux video/audio players and does claim to 
support .mp04 ie

>
>     Supported Video and Audio Codecs
>
>
>       most important video codecs:
>
>     * MPEG-1 (VCD) and MPEG-2 (SVCD/DVD/DVB) video
>     * MPEG-4 in all variants including DivX ;-), OpenDivX (DivX4),
>       DivX 5 (Pro), XviD
>
You can find out about Mplayer here .. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Julian

>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 repositorwould 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 Linrunning Mandriva 10.2 please.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Noel.
>>>>        
>>>>