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Old 01-28-2006, 10:41 AM   #1
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Can't Find Mplayer w/ APT


Code:
gamebox:/# apt-cache search mplayer
ksubtile - subtitle editor for KDE
tea - small text editor with syntax highlighting & UTF support
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
 
Old 01-28-2006, 11:08 AM   #2
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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.

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## 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
 
Old 01-28-2006, 12:19 PM   #3
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Thanks! I will add them now.
 
Old 01-28-2006, 12:29 PM   #4
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I get the following error:

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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
 
Old 01-28-2006, 12:42 PM   #5
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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.
 
Old 01-29-2006, 07:05 AM   #6
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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
 
Old 01-29-2006, 10:59 AM   #7
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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.
 
Old 01-29-2006, 11:47 AM   #8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Phiebie
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.
Try using the -vo switch when starting mplayer eg. mplayer -fs -vo xv video_file.
 
Old 01-29-2006, 11:51 AM   #9
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I have the same problem (stampsize ).
It works when I use totem instead of mplayer though
 
Old 01-30-2006, 09:23 AM   #10
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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.
 
  


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