Unable to play VCDs with Xine. Where can I get mplayer for Debian?

vharishankar · 02-14-2005, 01:26 AM

I am currently unable to play VCDs with Xine. It exits with an error message that I cannot read because it disappears quickly. I think it's something to do with not recognizing the format.

Does anybody know how to play VCDs and where I can get mplayer? There's no mplayer in the Debian Repositories.

musicman_ace · 02-14-2005, 02:08 AM

While some people have claimed to see mplayer in a package format, typically you have to compile it. You can find it at www.mplayerhq.hu/ and the guide is really simple if you read it first. If you don't read all of it first, your likely to miss out on the w32 codec installation

short101 · 02-14-2005, 02:14 AM

You can get .debs from nerim.net or something like that Just google debian install mplayer

vharishankar · 02-14-2005, 02:35 AM

Never mind, xine works.

I tried to open the DAT file directly rather than playing the disk as a VCD.

Thanks anyway!

h2gofast · 02-14-2005, 11:20 AM

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

bobbens · 02-14-2005, 12:09 PM

http://www.apt-get.org/ for all your apt needs. You can find all these mirrors for all these packages here, really worth site, for future reference :P.