multimedia problems

squareyes squareyes at optusnet.com.au
Fri Aug 26 06:08:41 UTC 2005


david wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:13 +0200, Praveen Kumar wrote:
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>>hi,
>>
>>i have a few multimedia clips that i downloaded from my camcorder in
>>OSX.. but when i try to open them with totem i get the error that it
>>is unable to open the file and that i should install the plug-ins.
>>after looking around for a while, i found out that there are a few
>>multimedia codecs that i need to install (like ffmpeg etc) but using
>>apt-get or synaptic, i am unable to find them in the list.. any
>>solutions? is there a better player than totem? 
>>
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>My experience has been that Totem seems to spend most of it's life
>saying "I can't play this file", Xine is SO much better (mplayer is the
>other big player) both are available using synaptic.
>You could do with the w32codecs as well, I have a copy at home and don't
>know the URL but I'm sure someone will post it. 
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>regards
>
>nux
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Hi Praveen,
totem-xine available in Synaptic.
w32codecs also avalable in Synaptic
hope this helps
Take Care
Winton




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