[ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

[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 <buzz at exotica.org.uk> wrote:

>> 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 will be able to
>play them back, so it is likely to be a missing dependency/library.
>
>Best Regards
>
>Jools
>
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