Paul Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:46:00 +1000:
> When I use kmplayer to watch a video (wmv format, in this case) it appears > I have a choice. If I configure kmplayer to use mplayer, I get sound but > no picture, conversely, if I configure kmplayer to use mplayer-bin (with > no other config changes) I get a picture, but no sound. FWIW, I won't use mplayer-bin, because I have no need to since I don't use the slaveryware codecs that would be the only reason to use it over the 64-bit version. That said... Even back when I didn't feel as strongly about slaveryware and used binary-only codecs, I found mplayer a constant struggle to get and keep everything working at once. I /much/ prefer xine, as it often "just works" where I'd otherwise still be fighting with mplayer trying to get the right combination of video and audio codecs to get it to play the same thing equally well. As it happens, kmplayer can also be merged with USE=xine, and then you'll get that option for backend player as well as mplayer. (A third option is gstreamer, but I've had even less luck with it than mplayer.) That said, I suspect your problem is that the file you are trying to play requires a (formerly?) binary-only video codec, so xine (as currently unmasked) won't show video either. Recent posts say the still masked ffmpeg and xine built on top of it can play formerly binary-codec-only wmv-9 videos. I haven't personally tried the unmasking yet so can't vouch for that myself, but I plan to, and others say it works. As for mplayer config, both the -bin and 64-bit versions, I'll leave that for someone else to deal with because as I said I've had little luck with it. I can venture a guess, however, that it's /possible/ to get sound with mplayer-bin, particularly if you have sound with mplayer (64-bit), if you just get the config right -- which is as I said the hard part with mplayer, xine is /far/ easier. Finally, if you are a regular KDE user as I am, I'll pass on a tip passed to me (@ 'em, thanks, BTW). kaffeine integrates rather better into KDE, and is all around a rather more polished player than kmplayer, with a few features kmplayer is missing (like slowmo and double-speed playback without sound, variable speed playback with sound so you can watch a 30 minute video in 25 minutes if desired, features like that). It can make use of the same backends, at least mplayer and xine, don't know about gstreamer. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
