HOWTO: replace totem with mplayer

**lostdata** · October 22nd, 2005

ok i have tried apt-get update and i am still unable to install mplayer-386 nor 586 i'm running breezey badeger i have already installed the win32 codecs the following is the error i get

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Reading package lists... Done
lostdata@UPE:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer-586
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mplayer-586
lostdata@UPE:~$ sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package mplayer-386

the following is my sources.list

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deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security main restricted

# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy-security universe

if someone knows a repository i can add to get this i would appreciate it

**lostdata** · October 22nd, 2005

I have ssh'd to my box and found the following repository and added it, i was able to install all the packages now, i will test firefox tonight when i get home...

deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy universe multiverse

**lostdata** · October 23rd, 2005

woohoo works great thanks

**bored2k** · October 23rd, 2005

http://www.ahacic.5gigs.com/ubuntu/m....11-1_i386.deb
http://rapidshare.de/files/6593654/m..._i386.deb.html

October 22nd (2005) build of CVS MPlayer with GTK2 GUI, OSD support, Big files (>2GB) support and most of the audio/video outputs. Compiled on Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...0&postcount=72

**4linux** · October 23rd, 2005

Works great for me.

BTW, I installed the win32 codecs this way: According to Tic Toc's instructions in this thread

-Pat

**Cl1mh4224rd** · October 24th, 2005

Ok, so... it all went well. I head on over to check out the Serenity trailer, and it's just peachy. Then I check out the trailer for New World Order and... *bam bam bam*... As the page loads I get slammed with three popup windows, one for each version/size of the trailer.

I try to close them and they just come right back, because the videos are still being buffered.

What the heck's going on here?

**TiMBuS** · October 25th, 2005

haha, apt-getting mplayer fonts:

Need to get 1337kB of archives.

well there ya go.

**coaxx** · November 9th, 2005

http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050412.tar.bz2

seems to be down at the moment...

**agds** · November 9th, 2005

Thanks for the HowTo. It's been very useful. I can finally watch videos without Totem Mozilla Plugin crashing the browser. Some of the "fancier" trailers on Apple's site don't quite work as expected, but this is a vast improvement.