Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> writes: >> 5. Codes of common audio and video format should be available on it by >> default. >> >> 6. Upgradation process of it should be easy with the CD/DVD of current >> version. > > Codecs? mplayer can play everything but Debian and mplayer do not get along. > > I had trouble compiling the source. It was failing in some libavcodec > header file. > > I wonder. If you can get some deb for it it will be good. >
My laptop has Debian 6.0 and mplayer binary works out of the box. You should have following entry in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main non-free contrib and $ sudo aptitude install mplayer will do Thanks and Regards Noorul _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc