Video codec question on Slack 10.2

Lord_Tenebrus · 11-05-2006, 05:06 AM

now...i have installed slack 10.2 (again) on my new machine...and since this one can in fact play movies...i want to ask : first...doest slack have default codecs (cus i can play video...but it's very laggish) and if not : where do i find such...

since i'm a windows user (no no don't laugh) and i'm used to codec packs...maybe someone can give me some links...

oh and another thing..if slack does have codecs by default...how do i remove them (i remember that 2 codecs of the same kind (i.e. DivX) are not too good for your PC

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thnx in advance...

Alien Bob · 11-05-2006, 05:15 AM

At SlackBuilds.org you can find all the necessary files to build your own codec package.
Get all-20061022.tar.bz2 unpack that and read the mplayer-codecs-all.info file to get the download URL for the codecs. Download the codecs and then run the "mplayer-codecs-all.SlackBuild" which creates a real Slackwar e package out of it, that you can install using "installpkg".

Eric

Lord_Tenebrus · 11-05-2006, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Alien Bob

At SlackBuilds.org you can find all the necessary files to build your own codec package.
Get all-20061022.tar.bz2 unpack that and read the mplayer-codecs-all.info file to get the download URL for the codecs. Download the codecs and then run the "mplayer-codecs-all.SlackBuild" which creates a real Slackwar e package out of it, that you can install using "installpkg".

Eric

erm i dlded this package...but where is this mplayer-codecs-all.info file and where is this .SlackBuild file...

Alien Bob · 11-05-2006, 08:23 AM

I should of course have linked you to the tarball containing the SlackBuild, info etc.. files: http://www.slackbuilds.org/slackbuil...ecs-all.tar.gz

Eric

Lord_Tenebrus · 11-05-2006, 08:32 AM

thnx...btw for which player is this...i have xine and noatune...or does it work for all of them...

Alien Bob · 11-05-2006, 09:31 AM

The codecs archive is maintained by the MPlayer folks, but it works with xine/gxine as well, for sure. I do not know about noatune.

Eric

Lord_Tenebrus · 11-05-2006, 10:05 AM

it's still laggish...perhaps i should install mplayer for it to work...
i don't know what's the problem...i play movies no prob in windows...
perhaps i just can't set it right...

rkelsen · 11-05-2006, 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord_Tenebrus

it's still laggish...perhaps i should install mplayer for it to work...

I found that as well. Some videos had choppy (or no) sound with xine and noatun.

MPlayer plays them without problems. It is pretty simple to install MPlayer these days.

Code:

./configure --enable-gui && make && make install

did it for me. It worked without needing any extra libraries. They've obviously put in a lot of effort to simplify installation over the past couple of years.

Lord_Tenebrus · 11-07-2006, 04:44 AM

yeah i didn't have time lately to try it...maybe today...my inet is been crappy...so i can't really dl anything...oh well...thnx everyone

simcox1 · 11-07-2006, 11:40 AM

Why is there no link to the repositories on the slackbuilds homepage? Is it deliberate?

Alien Bob · 11-07-2006, 11:44 AM

It is called SlackBuilds.org and not SlackwarePackages.org for a reason:

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We do not now nor will we ever provide precompiled packages for any of the applications for which we have SlackBuild scripts - instead, we want the system administrator (that's you) to be responsible for building the packages.

Eric