[Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Tim
I had to build a new PC for the wife just before christmas due to a graphic card failure. I built a PC with old kit based on a Gigabyte AMD XP chip with onboard graphics (S3). I installed Debian squeeze and the xfce desktop, thankfully most thing worked out the box, the one that does not is

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - The 11th?

2010-12-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, My usual reminder had just popped up to tell me that the next meeting is one week away, when I noticed that the list sig says it's the 11th and not the 4th as it would be normally (first Tuesday of every odd month). I think we've switched to the first Tuesday of every odd and even

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:09:31 -, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: I installed Debian squeeze and the xfce desktop, thankfully most thing worked out the box, the one that does not is playing .wmv video. I am using the VLC player to view these video but all I get is the audio track no video,

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 18:11:54 Robert Bronsdon wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:09:31 -, Tim xendis...@gmx.com wrote: I installed Debian squeeze and the xfce desktop, thankfully most thing worked out the box, the one that does not is playing .wmv video. I am using the VLC

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread StarLion
If you hunt through the below you'll notice mplayer doesn't even look for a video codec. It just reports no video stream. Not quite so. VIDEO:  [WVP2]  800x600  24bpp  1000.000 fps   31.8 kbps ( 3.9 kbyte/s) Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Tim
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 18:25:59 StarLion wrote: If you hunt through the below you'll notice mplayer doesn't even look for a video codec. It just reports no video stream. Not quite so. VIDEO:  [WVP2]  800x600  24bpp  1000.000 fps   31.8 kbps ( 3.9 kbyte/s) Failed to open VDPAU

Re: [Dorset] wmv files won't play

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Merchant
I made the video and I can confirm that there is a video feed in the file as well. I can download it and play it locally on my PC with KMPlayer or play it through the web broswer (not quite sure what chrome uses). When I try through the chrome browser on the wifes PC I get missing