Re: Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?
On Wed, 08 May 2013 20:34:23 -0600 Paul Condon pecond...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This install went very smoothly, but ... I just noticed today that I can't play video clips in Iceweasel, no moving picture and no sound. And in Google Chrome, I can get the moving picture, but no sound. When it was running Squeeze, video clips were working fine, but I recall there was lots of magic in getting Squeeze video to work long ago. What kind of video clips? I suspect you may need to install flashplugin-nonfree for flash support on the web. This time I was hoping for a 'automagic' install, and until today when I discovered the video problem it had been fully automagic. What should I look for? Perhaps a package dependency is missing. Or what? What is the names of the video/sound packages that are used with Xfce4? (Come to think of it, I was running Gnome2 under Squeeze (and I don't remember tha package names from then)) As I remember, there were many competing video/sound packages with not much to distinguish them except that some worked for some people and others worked for other people. What is the situation now? I use vlc myself for audio and video. It will play most anything AV related. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130509005833.4e6d2...@debian.ok.shawcable.net
Re: Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 00:58 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: What kind of video clips? I suspect you may need to install flashplugin-nonfree for flash support on the web. I don't use flash anymore, it anyway is outdated and there will be no new versions for Linux released anymore. The OP's install likely is missing codecs: http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1368089982.3247.17.camel@archlinux
Video and sound in Wheezy: Howto?
I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This install went very smoothly, but ... I just noticed today that I can't play video clips in Iceweasel, no moving picture and no sound. And in Google Chrome, I can get the moving picture, but no sound. When it was running Squeeze, video clips were working fine, but I recall there was lots of magic in getting Squeeze video to work long ago. This time I was hoping for a 'automagic' install, and until today when I discovered the video problem it had been fully automagic. What should I look for? Perhaps a package dependency is missing. Or what? What is the names of the video/sound packages that are used with Xfce4? (Come to think of it, I was running Gnome2 under Squeeze (and I don't remember tha package names from then)) As I remember, there were many competing video/sound packages with not much to distinguish them except that some worked for some people and others worked for other people. What is the situation now? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518b0b2f.9000...@gmail.com
