[ubuntu-uk] Dirac playback under Ubuntu Edgy

[Stephen Garton]

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Alan Pope wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:48:53PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> With the discussion about the BBC and open standards, I noticed someone 
>> mentioned Dirac.  Its been a while since I looked at their pages and I 
>> see there are packages on Edgy for Dirac.  I have installed the packages 
>> and downloaded some sample videos but I can't seem to find anything to 
>> play them.
>>
>> Does anyone know how I can play Dirac files on Edgy?
>>
> 
> The dirac downloads page lists a patch for mplayer.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=102564
> 
> So unless someone has compiled and packaged it then you'd need to go get the mplayer source, 
> patch it and compile it yourself.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

It also looks like the edgy package (0.5.4) is behind the 'current' on
on the sourceforge page (0.6). You may have to compile it manually too?


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