Howto: Multimedia in Hoary

[Julius]

In Preferences change the Audio output to: eSound

That's very importar I realised that I had to change that option a while ago... I wasn't able to play MP3 and XMMs. Why isn't eSound set as audio output by default?

[kuleali]

You don't need to



it's deprecated and now it's just a dummy package, you just need to



Then you can also chose esd audio output in VLC audio advanced prefs.

Thank's for that tip.

[j_baer]

kuleali,

I would like to try VLC on a fresh install of Hoary. What do I need to install to get the same functionality as MPlayer and the MPlayer Mozilla Plugin.

Thanks ...

[kuleali]

kuleali,
I would like to try VLC on a fresh install of Hoary. What do I need to install to get the same functionality as MPlayer and the MPlayer Mozilla Plugin.
Thanks ...

Vlc plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4,DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, without any further configuration needed.

You could try:

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

This 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.

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.

[dangparker]

Hello,

I've gotten mplayer compiled and installed, along with totem-xine. I'm now trying to get mozplugger to work properly.

Mozplugger plays files well, but I have one question....

At sites like www.ifilm.com where they check for media type installed, it shows windows media and quicktime are not installed... How do I get firefox to report that these media players are installed?

Thanks in advance for your help

Daniel Parker

[clparker]

how do i change the audio in MPLAYER to ESD?

[kuleali]

how do i change the audio in MPLAYER to ESD?

Right click in the mplayer window and select Preferences, Know click on the Audio tab and select esd.

Remember to restart mplayer

[madzzoni]

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 mplayer-386

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

I follow these instruction exactly, but mozilla-mplayerplug-in still dosn't work in Firefox, for streaming video/audio.
The plugin shows up but stops after 25% download, where it use to start the streaming!
Before i use mplayer-custom in warty and it works perfectly, what happens in Hoary???

[kuleali]

I follow these instruction exactly, but mozilla-mplayerplug-in still dosn't work in Firefox, for streaming video/audio.
The plugin shows up but stops after 25% download, where it use to start the streaming!
Before i use mplayer-custom in warty and it works perfectly, what happens in Hoary???

You could try kaffeine.
Kaffeine is a media player for KDE. While it supports multiple player
engines, its default engine is Xine, giving Kaffeine a wide variety of
supported media types and letting Kaffeine access CDs, DVDs, and
network streams easily.

sudo apt-get install kaffeine
sudo apt-get install kaffeine-mozilla

Tell me if it worked, and remember to remov the "other" mozilla video plugins.

[ACK!!]

I follow these instruction exactly, but mozilla-mplayerplug-in still dosn't work in Firefox, for streaming video/audio.
The plugin shows up but stops after 25% download, where it use to start the streaming!
Before i use mplayer-custom in warty and it works perfectly, what happens in Hoary???

Hold on.

Am I just doing something wrong? I just followed the Unofficial Ubuntu Starter Guide:

http://ubuntuguide.org/

Ok mostly I subb'ed the word Warty with Hoary and edited out the repos that failed to do crap.

http://ubuntuguide.org/#codecs sounds like that what you need.

Might be wrong though.

I just followed the ubuntuguide and every well ... worked.

The only odd thing I noticed is that I found and oh my god people are going to trip on this --- totem gstreamer seemed to play dvds more smoothly than totem-xine.

I know this is the exact opposite behavior to everyone else in the known universe so don't rip me on this.

But the only thing gstreamer seems to be missing is a hook to use the win32 codecs for quicktime stuff. I can tell because it jitters and does the no sound on the proprietary movie trailors. Totem-xine handles those just fine which is the main reason I need quicktime support anyway so I stuck with totem-xine.