Comments on: Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs) in Debian 5.0 (Lenny)

By: Jairo

Jairo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:21:10 +0000

try with this parameter:
-vo x11

to learn about these parameters, try this:
-vo help

By: alex

alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:23:19 +0000

Hello everybody!
I have done everything according to the order: mplayer and codecs are downloaded. But the player does not want to play DVD (*.vob files). When been doubleclicked the player shows a fatal error: “Error opening\initializing the selected vodeo-out (-vo) device”. Can you advice me how to resolve the problem?

Thanks beforehand.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:54:14 +0000

Ah, I was under the impression that the mplayer plugin could handle quicktime stuff. Apparently not.

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:34:46 +0000

dave,that seems to be quicktime plugin

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:41 +0000

Hmm, followed the instructions to the letter, except that I installed w64codecs, and did not install the skins. I used
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
as my sources.list entry, and still can’t see the embedded quicktime on this page:
http://www.mocapclub.com/Pages/LayeredAnim01.htm

The two animations at the top of the page just show the blank white boxes with the “Click here to download plugin” messages. Any ideas on what might be going on, or how I might be able to diagnose the problems further?

Thanks

By: Admin

Admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:30:30 +0000

run the following command from your terminal

#apt-get -f install

By: Czr

Czr — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:38:53 +0000

T_T ERROR:

Leyendo lista de paquetes… Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado… Hecho
Tal vez quiera ejecutar `apt-get -f install’ para corregirlo:
Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas:
gnome-mplayer: Depende: libasound2 (> 1.0.17) pero 1.0.16-2 va a ser instalado
Depende: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.1) pero 2.12.12-1~lenny1 va a ser instalado
Depende: libmusicbrainz3-6 (>= 3.0.1) pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.21.6) pero 1.20.5-3+lenny1 va a ser instalado
kdewebdev: Depende: kfilereplace (>= 4:4.2.2-1~mea1) pero 4:3.5.9-3 va a ser instalado
mplayer: Depende: libamrnb3 pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libamrwb3 pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libfaac0 (>= 1.26) pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libggi2 (>= 1:2.2.2) pero no va a instalarse
Depende: liblzo2-2 pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libopenal1 pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libx264-65 (>= 1:0.svn20090115) pero no va a instalarse
Depende: libxvidcore4 (>= 1:1.0.0-0.0) pero no va a instalarse
Depende: mplayer-skin
E: Dependencias incumplidas. Intente ‘apt-get -f install’ sin paquetes (o especifique una solución).

By: Kevin DeKorte

Kevin DeKorte — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:43:35 +0000

mozilla-mplayer is no longer developed, perhaps you should try out and then possibly recommend that people use ‘gecko-mediaplayer’. This will bring in a browser plugin and a much better GUI to the default and no longer supported mplayer gui.

By: Andrew Malcolmson

Andrew Malcolmson — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:55:09 +0000

Watch out! After installing mplayer as above (lenny source) Gnash can no longer play Flash videos. Mplayer can play them but not within Iceweasel (mozilla-plugin installed).

By: John

John — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:27 +0000

Just to let you know you can also do this with the extras command. Many places have how to do this and then it brings up a menu with all the files you can install. You can install more but it has the majority of them and it also installs the multimedia line as well in your sources list.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:15:46 +0000

Wouldn’t the new user be better served by explaining how to add a repository (and its respective gpg key) and then listing the various external repositories like the included debian-multimedia, debian-unofficial, backports, etcetera rather than being told how to use apt-get to install a few packages from a single repository without bothering to mention why I should install mplayer from debian-multimedia instead of the version from /main or the legal issues around the various codecs and libdvdcss?

By: rivenathos

rivenathos — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:35:39 +0000

@ Gary Dale – Yes, w64codecs are the replacement for those using AMD64 versions of Debian 5 Lenny.

By: Gary Dale

Gary Dale — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:13:26 +0000

I note that the package w32codecs does not seem to be available on debian-multimedia.org for amd64 architectures. You can install w64codecs instead. I’m not sure if the w64codecs exactly replace the w32codecs but I would hope that they are pretty close.

By: Kim Briggs

Kim Briggs — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:03:46 +0000

Thanks for the very useful post. NOTE: this didn’t work for me, though, until I added “_all” after the “16″ in this line:

#dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2008.10.16.deb

Note also that the “#” prompt means you need to be root.

cheers,
KB