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1. i'm trying to get mplayer working properly on my system, but i can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to play different media formats, like wmv. it plays mpg fine, but won't play wmv or avi. also, i noticed that some people have icons on their desktops of mplayer. well i installed mplayer as source from mplayer's website, so how can i open the actual programs?
2. i changed my sarge repositories from sarge to sid, and now when i to apt-get update i get this error: "E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead." then when i try to install some programs via apt-get i get an error that says that some dependancies couldn't be met, so try apt-get update, which obviously doesn't work.
3. i installed k3b via apt-get, but it needs the growisofs file. where do i get it? i searched google and it didn't give me any links to dowload it. i have kubuntu installed on my system as well and it apparently has it installed as it can burn dvd's just fine...
how can i change it to include all of ubuntu's repositores? i tried just copying the sources.list file and it gave m a ton of erros that it doesn't have enough permission...
1. For the different formats, you'll have to download the win32codecs if you haven't already and install them to a specific location. The manual on mplayers website should have step you through the process. Thier directions worked for me when I used to use mplayer.
The icon may be a link to either mplayer, the GUI mplayer, or an alias to mplayer with a few extra options. You should be able to create a link simply by right clicking and "create new link". There are icon themes for KDE and Gnome all over the internet. KDElook is one I've visited.
2. - 4. I don't use debian and these question seem APT related, so I'm not help here.
sorry should have mentioned that. the icons are links to mplayers gui front-end (is it called gmplayer, i've heard it referred to that sevreal times). how do i get gmplayer installed is a better questions i guess.
WRT your apt configuration I am sure that this is not correct. This is the second time this has come up in regard to unstable in the last few weeks (mirrors.kernel.org). You will find the list of repository mirrors here . You need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list with lines similar to;
deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk /debian/ unstable main (see the list of GB sites to see how I got this). Basically you need a mirror near you. Alternatively you can use netselect (apt-get install netselect). Full details on apt and netselect read the documentation here . I personally have a printed version available for reference.
Try adding the following to your /etc/apt/source.list you need to open the file as root the easiest way that I know of doing that is alt+F2 then typing kdesu kwrite>enter your root password then open the file
use which ever version you are running. You can run apt-setup from a console to pick a mirror that is closer to you. Kplayer is the KDE frontend to mplayer.
Get the all-codecs package from mplayer site and unpack>copy the files to /usr/lib/codecs
You can also apt-get win32-codecs.
The doc at the mplayer site give very clear directions.
it was all of the non-us repositories that were causing the errors.
i got kplayer installed and it works well, i just need to get all of the codecs working.
last question. how do i get karamba to start everytime i log into my system? in kubuntu everytime i started it karamba would be up and running immedialtey (although so would some other unwanted apps). is there a start-up manager i can download?
for mplayer, there was no folder /usr/lib/codecs. in the readme it said the folder was /usr/local/lib/codecs, but that wasn't there either. i created the folder but it still doesn't work. what's wrong?
ok i removed mplayer and started doing everything according to the readme. all was going well until i tried to do ./configure --enable-gui, which gave me that i didn't have my gtk-devel files. i searched synaptic and it came up with about 100 of them, so i have no lcue which ones i need.
sorry for all the posts but i figured it out. i just did apt-get install player-386 and then apt-get install kplayer and now it plays everything
thanks everyone! i'll be sticking with debian for sure now.
but how's it going to work now that woody has been upgraded to sarge now (is that what happened?). will i have to change my repositories at all? also, how do i get kde 3.4?
Woody finally gets to retire, he has earned it.
Sarge is now the stable, so make sure if you are using testing repositories, your /etc/apt/source.list says testing and not sarge. Stable should say either stable or sarge not woody. Sid is always Sid. And life is good.
ok, apparently wmv files don't want to play anymore. i downloaded some wmv files of the internet and one is completely black, while another has blocks throughout the screen. the wmv file i had on my comp worked but ran pretty blockily (if that's a word). they all have sound.
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