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[Kevin Fishburne]

On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 16:52 -0500, David McMillan wrote:

> Checked in once before with a problem.  When I receive a video the 
> system picks "Movie Player (default)" for solution.  With Movie Player, 
> I often get an "error notice", or an "error occurred, could not 
> demultiplex stream".
> 
> I need a solution, any suggestions ?
> 
> McMillan


You might have better luck using VLC as your primary media player for
movies. You can make it the default application for various file types
by right-clicking the file, choosing Properties, then clicking the Open
With tab. If VLC is already in the list of available applications you
can click it to make it the default application to open the file with.
If not, you can click the Add button to select VLC or enter it as the
custom command "vlc". If you have various file types whose default app
associations you want to change you may need to follow this procedure
for each of them.

GNOME has a global setting for the default "multimedia player" that you
can change as well, although that setting is probably overridden by the
procedure I described above when using Nautilus (the file manager) to
open video files. It can be found under System, Preferences, Assistive
Technologies. Click the Preferred Applications button, then click the
Multimedia tab. Change the listbox to Custom and enter "vlc" in the
Command field.

Unfortunately a lot of multimedia content available on the Internet uses
proprietary audio and video codecs. Some examples include MP3, DivX,
WMA, WMV, MOV, and Adobe Flash. People have gone to great lengths to
reverse engineer these file formats in order to allow open source
operating systems to play them, but since they're chasing moving targets
it's difficult to maintain 100% compatibility with all multimedia files.
Here is some information on open source multimedia file formats that you
might find useful:

http://www.junauza.com/2008/04/freeopen-source-multimedia-file-formats.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_codecs

My personal favorites are XviD for video and FLAC or Vorbis for audio.

Kevin Fishburne
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