[xubuntu-users] 14.04.1 hates video (Steve Litt)

[Ince, Wilbur]

Aptik - this is the best news I have heard in a long time!  This will
make my life much easier, now I can manage customization between my
desktop and laptop.

Thanks for a great tip!

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM, kelmark <pcgarminmap at gmail.com> wrote:
> I realized complete new installs were needed, but I upgraded to 14.04
> and have had smplayer problems, mainly with mplayer and its refusal to
> play any GUI interface videos.  (playing mplayer through the terminal
> worked fine). I fixed my particular problem by installing mplayer2.
>
> To install mplayer2 I launched Synaptic and un-installed mplayer.  The
> uninstall installed mplayer2 by default.  I have checked other complete
> installs of 14.04 and they work fine with smplayer, which has mplayer
> 1.1-4.8 and NOT MPlayer2 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 (NEW Version)
>
> I will do a fresh install of Xubuntu 14.04 just to clean everything up.
>
> I use Aptik (It saves my PPA's and installed software list to a Backup
> Directory which automatically download and re-install all my programs).
>  (More in the Introducing Aptik Link below.
>
> (1. Backup my current installed PPA's and Software list (No need to
> backup software selections or application settings since they are wrong
> versions)
> (2. Copy aptik backup directory to a USB drive,
> (3. Clean Install 14.04
> (4. sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install aptik
> (5. Copy Backup directory from USB to Xubuntu
> (6. Launch new Aptik and restore your PPA's and Software
>
> Here's a link to Introducing Aptik which contains detailed information
> http://www.teejeetech.in/2014/01/introducing-aptik.html
>
> Timeshift is a drive snapshot backup tool
> http://www.teejeetech.in/2014/04/upgrade-to-ubuntu-1404-with-timeshift.html
>
> Don
>
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