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Re: mplayer debs, was: Re: AVI player recommendations
Whoops not private at all! silly me! wasn't paying attention. But since I
made the mistake now I have to say I stand by that first paragraph. Flame me
if ya like :-(
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 18:49, Sarah Hay wrote:
> 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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