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Re: mplayer debs, was: Re: AVI player recommendations



Thanks for the info. I decided to send this privately because I know that you 
will probably get flamed for downloading a binary of this. (by the way it is 
NOT illegal to have one just distribute them. mplayer has instructions for 
making .debs on their site so they asked for it. I couldn't care less about 
the ethics because if you visit their homepage they are a bunch of cranky 
jerks and I have heard the same about their help forums).

One question before I go is the one you just installed GUI based or is it 
command line? If it command line how did you get it to run properly? I had 
mplayer installed but I don't know if it was me or the install malfuntioning 
but I couldn't get it to play.

Thanks!
Sarah



On Wednesday 09 January 2002 13:57, Dave W wrote:
> I too have had problems with other players, and today found mplayer debs
> here:
>
> http://www.mplayer.fr.st/
>
> I added the line on this page to my sources.list and apt-got the thing,
> and then got the codecs and put them, IIRC, under /usr/lib/win32.
> Amazingly enough, it worked for all of the (few) mpg and avi files on this
> box.  I'll give it a much tougher test tonight at home.  But so far I'd
> have to say this is a very smooth little player.  I wish I'd discovered
> mplayer earlier.
>
> dave w
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:14:38 +0100
>
> Alexander Skwar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So sprach �Christian Vogler� am 2002-01-07 um 19:57:12 -0500 :
> > > and your point is, since there are no debs for mplayer? You've just
> >
> > Simply recompile it yourself.  Besides the law issue, they also list
> > technical reasons which make sense to me.
> >
> > My point for MPlayer: it works very, very good.
> >
> > > made a very good argument in favor of xine. Not to mention the very
> > > friendly and supportive developer and user communities that don't
> > > treat their users like idiots.
> >
> > Yes, the MPlayer guys are, uhm, "difficult"... :)
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
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