Multimedia :: Xine/Mplayer and unresolved dependancies

No, it won't be conflicting, came to the conclusion I'd messed things up sufficiently to do a fresh install! Mplayer I can't get to run from the desktop, not yet tried from the command line. This will sound really daft, but I'm kind of waiting until I can see my windows network (samba?) before trying it out (basically becouse all my mpeg/avi files are on my win computer). Thankfully I remembered how to get my USB wireless card working, so I can at least connect to the net and continue to use google/forums.. When I've sussed out how to see and get files from my win network, I'll post again!

Thanks,
Tim

Another thing I can recommend - even being a rookie like I am - the codecpack.dsl located in the System repository will help with not having the right codec almost every time..... so much easier than getting my windows box, which you either have to go to a million different codec sites or hope Media Player is smart enough to grab them.....

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Aug. 26 2006,18:57)

Which ones don't work? Both myDSL's mplayer and xine work out of the box, though I regularly use mplayer for video hardware acceleration with the xv output plugin via the XFree86.dsl package - and this is on 8+ year old hardware.

I can't get mplayer to work "out of the box". Using DSL3.0, fresh install. Run MyDSL, select mplayer (the correct one, there are three), it downloads, it says its installing, it puts an icon on my desktop and two (!) menu items under MyDSL in the menu.

But click on any of those and nothing happens. Entering "gmplayer" in terminal gets "Illegal instruction".

WTH?

For those who wish to follow spmcg's post, please see http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....06;st=5

original here.