On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 1:26:59 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Chinook wrote: > >Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>Robert Glueck wrote: > >> > >>>I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format > >>>on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard > >>>TV set. > >> > >> > >>I'd like to play them on Sarge. Just today I clicked on a .mov file > >>and was asked if I wanted to use the default program (gmplayer). I > >>said yes, but after it DL'd the file it complained that it could not > >>find the proper codec (I don't remember, now, which codec it was > >>looking for). Is there some place to get the proper codecs to make > >>these work. If so, where is it? If not, why give a default player > >>that can not actually play the file? > >> > > > > > >You might both look at VLC in your package app, or see > >http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ > > I just tried it on the .mov file from above. The video played just > fine, but there was no audio at all. I checked the preferences, made > sure that audio was enabled and the sound was turned all the way up. > Still no sound. I normally do get sound on this box.
I had something similar a couple of days ago, watching a DVD. vlc has an 'audio' menu, IIRC, containing mono, stereo and something else. It was defaulting every time to the something else, and clicking on stereo switched the sound on. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]