playing a video

[Niels Larsen]

On Friday 07 September 2007 17:00:16 Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> norman wrote:
> > Usually I do not have a problem playing videos however, in this
> > instance, I am totally confounded. The video was downloaded from a web
> > site by the procedure I normally use and, when I tried to play the
> > downloaded file in Movie Player, my normal procedure, there was video
> > but no audio. I tried to play in Avidemux and again the video was OK
> > and, although there was sound it was fast and high pitched.
> >
> > I had a look at the properties of the file and under Audio found
> > Bitrate: 1411 kbps, Codec: N/A, Sample rate: 44100Hz and Channels: 0.
> > The properties of the other files I have downloaded from this site are
> > Bitrate: N/A, Codec AAC 2.0 (libfaad), Sample rate: 44100Hz and
> > Channels: 0.
> >
> > Is there any way I can change any settings so that I can view this
> > video, it is quite important to me?
> >
> > Norman
>
> No clue about settings change. However each time I am confronted with
> such a problem, I try my two "emergency swiss army knife" player. First
> vlc and secondly the one and only mplayer. I found that vlc succeeds in
> about 80% of all the videos that I try to open with it and mplayer up to
> now has yet to fail, more precisely, anytime it failed, the video was
> defective and after a fresh download, mplayer was king, once again.
>
> Kind regards
> Eberhard

Get all the codecs from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html (aprox 32 
mb) and place them in /usr/lib/win32

If the "win32" directory does not exist, create it with: 

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32.

At least it works for me! :-)