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Can't Find Mplayer w/ APT

Code:

gamebox:/# apt-cache search mplayer

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How can APT-GET not find such a widely used application like Mplayer?

Source.list

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 Binary-1 $

deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ unstable main

deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian-amd64/debian/ testing main

# deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

Add these to your sources.list debian does not distribute Mplayer due to the license nazis in the project the packages are built by a Debian Developer though.

Code:

## Various Multimedia Helper Apps Mplayer, Real, w32codecs, etc.. ##

deb http://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main

deb http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main

Thanks! I will add them now.

I get the following error:

Code:

gamebox:/home/carlos/Desktop# apt-get update

W: GPG error: http://spello.sscnet.ucla.edu unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907

W: GPG error: http://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907

W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Try using gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 then gpg --armour --export 1F41B907 | apt-key add - as root then use the last eight letters/numbers of the other one to add both keys to your apt keys for the verification you can use the entire number as well if your want.

mplayer tutorial

this website is giving you where you can download the unofficial mplayer packages and how to install and configure mplayer in debian

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mplayer.htm

good luck

Quote:

Originally Posted by sridhar11

this website is giving you where you can download the unofficial mplayer packages and how to install and configure mplayer in debian

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mplayer.htm

good luck

Hi,
Maybe you or any other participant here could give me a helpfull
hand.
I've updated, albeit from nerim/marillat, my "old" mplayer
(something like pre3 or so) via aptitude to
1:1.0-pre7cvs20060103-0.1. All went well, no dependency-problems
or so.
I then started without altering anything in the config-files
mplayer. Well the video started as a small window on my screen, no
error-messages or whatsoever. As I don't like viewing videos at
stampsize, I wanted to get it "full-screen". Very nice, the whole
screen went black AND the video played as if nothing had happened in
its stampsize-format further, but now in the very center of the
screen! Whatever I tried, it wouldn't get bigger.
Studying your recommended url and the tips therein there was
regrettably no hint whatsoever on this phenomenon.
Please don't ask me what other programs I have installed between
the "old" and the "new" version of mplayer (all via aptitude of
course), dozens and dozens of them came in.
I run a "clean" testing-system, not mixing anything from Sarge or
Sid into it.
Thanks already for the brainstorming as to where something got
astray.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phiebie

Try using the -vo switch when starting mplayer eg. mplayer -fs -vo xv video_file.

I have the same problem (stampsize :)).
It works when I use totem instead of mplayer though

Quote:

Originally Posted by HappyTux

Try using the -vo switch when starting mplayer eg. mplayer -fs -vo xv video_file.

Thanks, it now works (again). For some reason the "xv" had been
substituted by "x11" with the mentioned shortcoming.