Multimedia Hell :-/

[albi at scii.nl]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:43:50 +0100
Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:

[compiling mplayer]

> I gather that mplayer "can read about anything that exists on earth".
> Great, but the procedure to install it is hardly trivial

this page has a howto, which worked fine for me a few days ago :
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=9850&page=3&pp=10

i've used the sources.list from the unofficial ubuntuguide.org :
http://ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories

also compiling mplayer (with the above method) instead of using a
pre-compiled mplayer-package greatly inproved playing video-files on one
of my machines