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    HOWTO: Multimedia in Hoary

    MPlayer

    To get mplayer to work simply change youre rep. to:

    sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

    ## The following lines pertain to supported packages:
    deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
    deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted

    ## The following lines pertain to security updates:
    deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
    deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted

    ## Uncomment after release to continue getting updates:
    deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted

    ## IMPORTANT:
    ## Software from the following repositories are ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by
    ## the Ubuntu team, and may not be under a free licence. This means that
    ## software in these repositories WILL NOT receive any review or updates
    ## from the Ubuntu security team either. These packages are provided as a
    ## service to our users and nothing more.

    ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe' and
    ## 'multiverse' repositories:
    deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe multiverse
    deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe multiverse

    ## Uncomment the following line to add Java software:
    deb http://jrfonseca.dyndns.org/debian/ ./

    Sudo apt-get install update

    sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
    sudo apt-get install mplayer fonts


    This package contains fonts needed (but not mandatory) by mplayer to
    display OSD (onscreen display) and subtitles.

    And you want as well get the mozilla-mplayer plug-in

    sudo apt-get install mozilla-mplayer



    To run mplayer type:
    gmplayer


    And change the Audio to: esd



    VLC

    For thouse of you that don't know what VLC is:

    VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimediastreams from various network sources.

    To play video files :

    apt-get install vlc
    apt-get install vlc-plugin-esd
    (since hoaey uses ESD)

    In terminal type:

    vlc --aout esd


    Hopefully you will now be able to play all sort of video files.


    You can also edit this in the preferences:

    Open the Preferences and klikk on "Audio",
    Mark the Advanced option and make EsounD youre default audio output Module.

    To play video streams in mozilla:

    The mozilla VLC plugin adds support for MPEG, MPEG2, DVD, DivX, Ogg/Vorbis and many more formats to your Mozilla browser. The decoding process is done by VLC
    and the output window is embedded in a webpage or directly in the browser
    window. There is also support for fullscreen display and javascript control.

    sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

    I tried this with the mozilla browser and it worked. You may have to wait some seconds because it may not show that it is buffering.


    Kaffeine

    Kaffeine is a xine-based media player for KDE 3
    Kaffeine has all the features of xine-ui, but is native to KDE.

    sudo apt-get install kaffeine

    If the mozilla-plugins above did not work try:

    sudo apt-get install kaffeine-mozilla

    This mozilla plugin launches kaffeine, the xine-based media player for KDE,
    when a page containing a supported media format is loaded.

    Xmms, To play music files:


    apt-get install xmms
    apt-get libmikmod2


    In Preferences change the Audio output to: eSound

    Enjoy....Tell me if this helped..
    Last edited by kuleali; April 11th, 2005 at 04:18 PM. Reason: Kaffeine

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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    It sucks! But thx for the suggestion...
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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    Quote Originally Posted by telmo
    It sucks! But thx for the suggestion...
    Rude lol .

    It would work on lucky computers with no errors at all on Hoary. But soon enough well see "still doesnt work" postings .
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    Red face Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    Quote Originally Posted by bored2k
    Rude lol .

    It would work on lucky computers with no errors at all on Hoary. But soon enough well see "still doesnt work" postings .
    Yeah, your right... but it's just that i've never seen such an ugly player!
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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    Thank you for posting this, I can now watch the new Nine Inch Nails video with sound.

    Alternatively, you can apt-get install xine-ui and the w32codecs package. I find that this method also works with Hoary (using the debian-marillat repositories).

    Yeah, your right... but it's just that i've never seen such an ugly player!
    I agree. While VLC isn't much to look it, it does what it was intended for and it does it well.

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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    Quote Originally Posted by telmo
    It sucks! But thx for the suggestion...
    Skins is a good thing.

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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    Quote Originally Posted by telmo
    It sucks! But thx for the suggestion...
    Don't want to make a flame war, but vlc is one of the best media players out there. Yea, it might not look great, but it sure works good. As the suggestion before "skins!!!" Mplayer imo looks awful I mean what can get worse looking than CLI.

    Thanks for the suggestion

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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    Quote Originally Posted by dillweed
    Don't want to make a flame war, but vlc is one of the best media players out there. Yea, it might not look great, but it sure works good. As the suggestion before "skins!!!" Mplayer imo looks awful I mean what can get worse looking than CLI.

    Thanks for the suggestion
    Flame war or not , VLC is the best Multiplatform Media Player this side of Wonderland .
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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    You don't need to

    apt-get install vlc-esd
    it's deprecated and now it's just a dummy package, you just need to

    apt-get install vlc-plugin-esd
    Then you can also chose esd audio output in VLC audio advanced prefs.

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    Re: Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

    VLC in Hoary looks incredibly old-school IMO but it gets the job done.

    Oh, I got sound running back again here on VLC. It's my favorite player in Warty, and I hope the performance in Hoary will improve on the freeze date. Thanks for the tips.
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