Can't get videos to play

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 00:57, David Kramer wrote:

> # rpm -qa | egrep -i '(xine|mplayer|vlc|videolan|codec)'
> libXinerama-devel-1.0.1-2.1
> xine-lib-extras-1.1.6-2.fc6
> xine-lib-devel-1.1.6-2.fc6
> w32codec-0.52-1
> xine-lib-1.1.6-2.fc6
> mplayer-fonts-1.0-7.at
> mplayerplug-in-3.40-31.fc6.at
> mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1
> mplayer-skin-mini-0.1-11.2.at
> mplayer-1.0-60_r23482.fc6
> xine-plugin-1.0-3.fc6
> xine-ui-0.99.6cvs-070706
> libXinerama-1.0.1-2.1
> gxine-0.5.11-3.fc6
> mplayer-skins-1.0-pre3_13.at
> gxine-mozplugin-0.5.11-3.fc6
> mplayer-codecs-20061022-1
>
> Ya think that's enough?  But still, about half the movies I try to  
> play using mplayer and ALL of the movies I try to play in  xine  
> bitch about demuxer not found.  Yes, I made sure xine was looking  
> in the right place (/usr/lib/codecs).
>
> Is there anything else I can look for?  Oh, this is Fedora Core 6.

In the xine case, I believe you're missing xine-lib-extras-nonfree,  
at least if you're using the Fedora Extras xine, which doesn't  
include a number of codecs -- they come from livna instead.

http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/6/i386/xine-lib-extras- 
nonfree-1.1.6-1.lvn6.i386.rpm

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Jarod Wilson
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