Mplayer problems.

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Igor -

I installed the X binary distribution that was included with my
Slackware 8.0 distribution.
Chuck


On Tue, 7 May 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi Chuck. Did you compile X from source or was it a binary distro? Because I was thinking on getting X and then using a xterm to start mplayer so I could play divx on this box.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck at valstar.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Mplayer problems.
>
>
> > Hi Toby,
> > On Tue, 7 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi Chuck, ok, do you think I need some switch to explicitly tell it to
> > > just try to play audio, not video, despite the fact I'm using vo=null?
> >
> > No. Just entering "mplayer filename.asf" on my system plays the
> > audio stream fine. But if I run "mplayer -dumpaudio filename.asf"
> > I get the errors you describe. No switches necessary to just hear
> > the audio on my system.
> >
> > > Also, where do you think I could get these font files from?  Do you think
> > > I might need to install X and compile with that, oh I really, really
> > > really hope not.
> >
> > I have no idea where to get those font.desc files from. They are
> > not included with any of the components of the mplayer package
> > that I have here.
> >
> > As for installing "X", I have installed X on this system, but it
> > is not running when I run mplayer. It is not that hard to install
> > actually, and some applications seem to be more comfortable if
> > they can find the X libraries. If you have the disk space I would
> > recommend installing X just for insurance.
> >
> > Back to mplayer - my config file contains "vo=null" and "ao=oss"
> > and that is all. And I can play mpg and mpeg files okay, and also
> > dump their audio okay too. The resulting audio files are mp3. I
> > have not yet experimented with .avi or other movie formats. The
> > experimental .asf files I have managed to download are certainly
> > not playlists, but full fledged native movies with sound track,
> > video track, and subtitles in multiple languages as far as I can
> > tell.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
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