[ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and have recently lost the ability to play FLV video files, regardless of their source. The files themselves play perfectly when I copy them to another machine with the same version of the OS, so it's not a corruption problem. Clearly I have somehow deleted or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Liam Proven
On 6 January 2014 10:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and have recently lost the ability to play FLV video files, regardless of their source. The files themselves play perfectly when I copy them to another machine with the same version of the OS, so it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Andres
Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com escribió: On 6 January 2014 10:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and have recently lost the ability to play FLV video files, regardless of their source. The files themselves play perfectly when I copy them to another

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Jools Wills
I would by reinstalling vlc see if it has any package missing as you suggest. I don't think you need adobe, gnash should play it as well. flv is a container format. may contain Sorenson Spark, vp6, h264 for video and mp3/aac etc for audio. any player that uses the ffmpeg (or libav) libraries

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread John Oliver
It'd odd that handbrake would work but mplayer wouldn't as if I recall correctly handbrake uses mencoder for its encoding operations. Perhaps you should try reinstalling mencoder? Jools Wills b...@exotica.org.uk wrote: I would by reinstalling vlc see if it has any package missing as you