multimedia problems

[Charles Yao]

How do I find them in synaptic, I cant seem to find either.

Thanks

On 8/26/05, squareyes <squareyes at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> david wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 07:13 +0200, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Praveen,
> totem-xine available in Synaptic.
> w32codecs also avalable in Synaptic
> hope this helps
> Take Care
> Winton
> 
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