[HLUG] Videos - unable to view.

[Phil Taylor]

yum install mplayer

;-)


Julian Robbins wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>       
>
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