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Ralph Spitzner
Oct 17, 2012, 1:44:46 AM10/17/12
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Is there a kde-multimedaia-nonfree for slack ?
Dragon for instance refuses to play all but the simplest videos.
Xine works ok, so libxine should be fine.
Any ideas on this one ?
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Dragon for instance refuses to play all but the simplest videos.
Xine works ok, so libxine should be fine.
Any ideas on this one ?
--
See why I hate Windows users?
All pain, no gain.
-Howard Chu
Aaron W. Hsu
Oct 17, 2012, 3:30:27 AM10/17/12
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:44:46 -0400, Ralph Spitzner <ra...@spitzner.org>
wrote:
> Is there a kde-multimedaia-nonfree for slack ?
> Dragon for instance refuses to play all but the simplest videos.
> Xine works ok, so libxine should be fine.
> Any ideas on this one ?
Dragon Player uses Phonon, which in turn uses whatever backend you give
it. The default backend for phonon is gstreamer, while on Slackware you
also have an option of Mplayer or Xine backends, I think.
As I like the gstreamer setup, I wanted to keep this, but the default set
of plugins shipped with gstreamer in Slackware is only the good and base
plugins, which do not include the encumbered codecs which most videos
these days like to use (at least, many of the compressed ones that you
find around the Internet do). SlackBuilds has the gst-plugins-bad and
gst-plugins-ugly and gst-ffmpeg packages all ready for use. The
gst-plugins-bad neglects to mention that if you do not install the codecs
you care about (x264 and a52 in my case), then it will silently skip them.
This leads to the following setup that worked for me:
1) Install x264 and a52 packages from SlackBuilds.
2) Install gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, and gst-ffmpeg from
SlackBuilds.
Problem solved. Incidently, this also fixes Amarok and other players which
rely on Phonon for audio.
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Aaron W. Hsu | arc...@sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us
Programming is just another word for the Lost Art of Thinking.
wrote:
> Is there a kde-multimedaia-nonfree for slack ?
> Dragon for instance refuses to play all but the simplest videos.
> Xine works ok, so libxine should be fine.
> Any ideas on this one ?
it. The default backend for phonon is gstreamer, while on Slackware you
also have an option of Mplayer or Xine backends, I think.
As I like the gstreamer setup, I wanted to keep this, but the default set
of plugins shipped with gstreamer in Slackware is only the good and base
plugins, which do not include the encumbered codecs which most videos
these days like to use (at least, many of the compressed ones that you
find around the Internet do). SlackBuilds has the gst-plugins-bad and
gst-plugins-ugly and gst-ffmpeg packages all ready for use. The
gst-plugins-bad neglects to mention that if you do not install the codecs
you care about (x264 and a52 in my case), then it will silently skip them.
This leads to the following setup that worked for me:
1) Install x264 and a52 packages from SlackBuilds.
2) Install gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, and gst-ffmpeg from
SlackBuilds.
Problem solved. Incidently, this also fixes Amarok and other players which
rely on Phonon for audio.
--
Aaron W. Hsu | arc...@sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us
Programming is just another word for the Lost Art of Thinking.
Ralph Spitzner
Oct 17, 2012, 9:16:16 AM10/17/12
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Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
[...]
was left.
Fixed it :-()
Also precompiled '14.0' MPlayer crashed (the Slackbuild has a
mplayer-whatever-nolibdcss source tree :-( )
[it complained about having received a signal 6]
Compiled from *.hu it works again, 1337 didn't have such
config ulcers.
[...]
> 1) Install x264 and a52 packages from SlackBuilds.
> 2) Install gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, and gst-ffmpeg from
> SlackBuilds.
>
> Problem solved. Incidently, this also fixes Amarok and other players
> which rely on Phonon for audio.
>
I just removed phonon backends gst and mplayer, so only xine
> 2) Install gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, and gst-ffmpeg from
> SlackBuilds.
>
> Problem solved. Incidently, this also fixes Amarok and other players
> which rely on Phonon for audio.
>
was left.
Fixed it :-()
Also precompiled '14.0' MPlayer crashed (the Slackbuild has a
mplayer-whatever-nolibdcss source tree :-( )
[it complained about having received a signal 6]
Compiled from *.hu it works again, 1337 didn't have such
config ulcers.
Aaron W. Hsu
Oct 17, 2012, 9:46:34 PM10/17/12
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:16:16 -0400, Ralph Spitzner <ra...@spitzner.org>
wrote:
> Also precompiled '14.0' MPlayer crashed (the Slackbuild has a
> mplayer-whatever-nolibdcss source tree )
can examine to see if we get the same results? I have had very stable
performance from both gstreamer and mplayer, which basically boils down to
amarok, dragon player, and mplayer.
wrote:
> Also precompiled '14.0' MPlayer crashed (the Slackbuild has a
> [it complained about having received a signal 6]
Did you check it out in more detail? Is there a sample file the rest of us
can examine to see if we get the same results? I have had very stable
performance from both gstreamer and mplayer, which basically boils down to
amarok, dragon player, and mplayer.
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