missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
I installed and have been using mplayer succcessfully, but decided I'd like to be able to run DVDs, and so now installed the win32codecs package. I was able to play one DVD, which is a copy of an old silent film, but when I try a new DVD, I get: libavformat file format detected. LA

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Haines Brown wrote: > I installed and have been using mplayer succcessfully, but decided I'd > like to be able to run DVDs, and so now installed the win32codecs > package. I was able to play one DVD, which is a copy of an old silent > film, but when I try a new DVD, I get: > > libavformat fil

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:07:57 -0400, Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed and have been using mplayer succcessfully, but decided I'd > like to be able to run DVDs, and so now installed the win32codecs > package. I was able to play one DVD, which is a copy of an old silent > fi

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Haines Brown
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > libavformat file format detected. >> LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed >> >> Exiting... (End of file) >> >> So I did >> >>$ mplayer -v >> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread steef
Haines Brown wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haines Brown wrote: libavformat file format detected. LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed Exiting... (End of file) So I did $ mplayer -v

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread steef
Haines Brown wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Haines Brown wrote: libavformat file format detected. LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed Exiting... (End of file) So I did $ mplayer -v

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-07 Thread Martin Kraus
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:31:04PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Martin, you have to realize that I've never even tried to play a DVD > before, and so I'm at a loss. What are the vobs? I just did $ mplayer > /dev/hdc and the old DVD played. No idea what "dvd://" is > either. Looks like a URI. the c

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-08 Thread Haines Brown
Martin, I want to thank you for your explanation. DVD playing is something I've never even thought about. > ... the dvd is usually encrypted and you have to decrypt the title > first. this is done automatically by libdvdread and libdvdcss (which > is usually compiled into mplayer) when using the

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-08 Thread Martin Kraus
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:45:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > If I understand you correctly, mplayer is entirely self contained, and > when the package is installed it brings in everying needed to play DVDs. i've acctually never used mplayer from debian repos. mplayer automaticaly depends on lib

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:47:51PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:07:57 -0400, Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > It turned out I have no codecs.conf file in either /etc/mplayer/ or in > > ~/.mplayer/ . Shouldn't mplayer have created the file? I was unable to > >

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:45:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Martin, > > I want to thank you for your explanation. DVD playing is something I've > never even thought about. > > > ... the dvd is usually encrypted and you have to decrypt the title > > first. this is done automatically by libdvdr