Multimedia Hell :-/

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I gather that mplayer "can read about anything that exists on earth".
> Great, but the procedure to install it is hardly trivial, I looked at it
> once in the wiki, and had to give up long before reaching the end of the
> procedure, gurus only, along with plenty of time and prayers. Why don't
> we have one big package with mplayer (or Totem or whatever) and all
> necessary plug-ins, that we can just install from synaptic as soon as we
> install Ubtun, and be done with multimedia for good ?

For some reason, the mplayer package included in Warty (multiverse) is broken.
But the source package was ok: you just need to download and compile it,
which boils down to:

1. Add a deb-src entry for multiverse
2. apt-get source mplayer
3. apt-get build-dep mplayer
4. cd mplayer-<version> && fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage

Anyway, Hoary has a perfectly working mplayer package. When Hoary releases,
you'll just need to install this along with w32codecs from Marillat's
repository, then sit down and enjoy the movie :-)

Danilo