Re: [trinity-users] what can I do, uptodare wheezy, to play video3gpp2950.3g2, which claims its an mpeg4
Greetings;
One of my boys sent me this video, video3gpp2950.3g2, claims to be an mpeg4, to show what it is he is doing on a new job, which is fixing up the damaged electricals after all these nor-easters.
The menu system says noatun, when I click on it in kmail, but its not even opening a work window when noatun is entered in a terminal window or clicked on in the menu. And no errors are returned in that terminal window.
tde 14.0.5, up to date debian 32 bit wheezy.
Ideas to check?
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene
Try mplayer. It can usually play everything.
Kate
On Thursday 22 March 2018 21:53:38 Kate Draven wrote:
Greetings;
One of my boys sent me this video, video3gpp2950.3g2, claims to be an mpeg4, to show what it is he is doing on a new job, which is fixing up the damaged electricals after all these nor-easters.
The menu system says noatun, when I click on it in kmail, but its not even opening a work window when noatun is entered in a terminal window or clicked on in the menu. And no errors are returned in that terminal window.
tde 14.0.5, up to date debian 32 bit wheezy.
Ideas to check?
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene
Try mplayer. It can usually play everything.
Kate
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
Thanks.
if it won't play on VLC, try playing it -- really -- on your phone, unless it is an iphone.
dep
On Mar 22, 2018, at 10:11 PM, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
On Thursday 22 March 2018 21:53:38 Kate Draven wrote:
Greetings;
One of my boys sent me this video, video3gpp2950.3g2, claims to be an mpeg4, to show what it is he is doing on a new job, which is fixing up the damaged electricals after all these nor-easters.
The menu system says noatun, when I click on it in kmail, but its not even opening a work window when noatun is entered in a terminal window or clicked on in the menu. And no errors are returned in that terminal window.
tde 14.0.5, up to date debian 32 bit wheezy.
Ideas to check?
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene
Try mplayer. It can usually play everything.
Kate
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
Thanks.
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On Thursday 22 March 2018 23:12:39 dep wrote:
if it won't play on VLC, try playing it -- really -- on your phone, unless it is an iphone.
dep
I found it, dependency on a missing library ack strace.
I have a libdvdnav.so.4 but not libdvdnavmini.so.4 which according to strace is whats missing.
Now what? can I softlink libdvdnavmini.so.4 to libdvdnav.so.4?
On Mar 22, 2018, at 10:11 PM, Gene Heskett gheskett@shentel.net wrote:
On Thursday 22 March 2018 21:53:38 Kate Draven wrote:
Greetings;
One of my boys sent me this video, video3gpp2950.3g2, claims to be an mpeg4, to show what it is he is doing on a new job, which is fixing up the damaged electricals after all these nor-easters.
The menu system says noatun, when I click on it in kmail, but its not even opening a work window when noatun is entered in a terminal window or clicked on in the menu. And no errors are returned in that terminal window.
tde 14.0.5, up to date debian 32 bit wheezy.
Ideas to check?
Thanks.
-- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene
Try mplayer. It can usually play everything.
Kate
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
Thanks.
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Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
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On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
I found this on the web at crunchbang, which says #4 2014-08-20 03:18:57
hvwoax New Member Registered: 2014-08-20 Posts: 1
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
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On Friday 23 March 2018 04:13:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
I found this on the web at crunchbang, which says #4 2014-08-20 03:18:57
hvwoax New Member Registered: 2014-08-20 Posts: 1
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
And the /home/gene/Desktop/wmplayer.Desktop appears to have been overwritten by PlaysonLinux. After installing it, it didn't work, so I figured the whole thing was duff although not a peep out of clamscan.
But how best to restore that file?
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
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On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:13:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
snip
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
And the /home/gene/Desktop/wmplayer.Desktop appears to have been overwritten by PlaysonLinux. After installing it, it didn't work, so I figured the whole thing was duff although not a peep out of clamscan.
But how best to restore that file?
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player? Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
greg
Am Freitag, 23. März 2018 schrieb Greg Madden:
On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote: [...]
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player? Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
I always use mplayer and supplementals from deb-multimedia, as I found stock versions from debian/devuan to be broken for most of my files:
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
On Friday 23 March 2018 01:15:38 am Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Freitag, 23. März 2018 schrieb Greg Madden:
On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote: [...]
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player? Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
I always use mplayer and supplementals from deb-multimedia, as I found stock versions from debian/devuan to be broken for most of my files:
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
Forgot to mention Wheezy is old for multimedia, and bugs have been fixed since then.
I use mpv, stay away from Deb-multimedia, mess's with Stable library depends, when compiling some sources. ymmv
Greg Madden wrote:
I use mpv, stay away from Deb-multimedia, mess's with Stable library depends, when compiling some sources. ymmv
Never had issue in the past 10y (even before it become deb-multimedia.org)
I use always stable debian and since jessie it works great. I ported older kplayer to trinity and Slavek included it, so might be available in future. This is a front end to mplayer and is the best one I know.
regards
On Friday 23 March 2018 05:15:38 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Freitag, 23. März 2018 schrieb Greg Madden:
On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote: [...]
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player? Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
I always use mplayer and supplementals from deb-multimedia, as I found stock versions from debian/devuan to be broken for most of my files:
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stretch main non-free
I have that, except of course for wheezy main non-free There are basically only two "off-debian" active lines, one for TDE, and one for LinuxCNC.
So I should have it covered.
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:56:58 Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:13:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace.
Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
snip
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
And the /home/gene/Desktop/wmplayer.Desktop appears to have been overwritten by PlaysonLinux. After installing it, it didn't work, so I figured the whole thing was duff although not a peep out of clamscan.
But how best to restore that file?
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player?
Probably.
Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
I'd assume so, but my wine is elderly, and my cross-something is even older.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
The .3g2 does play now if its saved as a file, but not if clicked on while still part of an email. Seems like I must invent a better linkage recipe. For that I'd obviously need help, hint hint. :)
greg
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On Friday 23 March 2018 09:03:17 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:56:58 Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:13:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote: > Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to > mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something > is missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of > the bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace. > > Next?
what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command line?
mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
snip
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
And the /home/gene/Desktop/wmplayer.Desktop appears to have been overwritten by PlaysonLinux. After installing it, it didn't work, so I figured the whole thing was duff although not a peep out of clamscan.
But how best to restore that file?
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player?
Probably.
Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
I'd assume so, but my wine is elderly, and my cross-something is even older.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
The .3g2 does play now if its saved as a file, but not if clicked on while still part of an email. Seems like I must invent a better linkage recipe. For that I'd obviously need help, hint hint. :)
In my opinion, it's not a good idea to open such links directly from email; especially if you mean in a web browser, but I don't even like opening links in an email client such as Kmail. I always save to hard disk, then open with my preferred player.
Have you installed all necessary codecs? I have only one video in .3g2 format, and it plays in most players: mplayer, mpv, Dragon player, etc. It also used to play in VLC, but that item has been problematic in Jessie (not only for myself, but I've read about others having problems). The recommendation (in the forums) is to use Wheezy repos, but it sounds like you're already running Wheezy.
Besides deb-multimedia, there are some other third-party repositories where you can find "other" packages. MEPIS and MX repositories make packages available from Stretch, Jessie, Wheezy, and I think Sid, but I would use their stuff sparingly, as they are a little funky. I used it to find torbrowser for Jessie, and some packages to make OpenOffice work (thus it is useful); however, it installed an older version of xscreensaver by giving it a superficially "newer" version number. Therefore: useful, but iffy.
I keep separate versions of sources.list (under different names), with entries enabled for repositories where I can find specific packages; then I can swap them out easily, then rename it to sources.list, and copy it to /etc/apt/, then run sudo apt-get update. Once I am done, I switch back and do the same, then save the package somewhere, so that I can install it thereafter by using dpkg.
Bill
greg
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On Saturday 24 March 2018 00:27:24 William Morder wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 09:03:17 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:56:58 Greg Madden wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 04:13:22 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun > > to mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently > > something is missing there too, as all I get is 30 > > seconds worth of the bouncing curser. And no error > > logged anyplace. > > > > Next? > > what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the > command line? > > mplayer <filename>
Had to save it from the mail, but
gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
See my prev msg.
snip
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
And the /home/gene/Desktop/wmplayer.Desktop appears to have been overwritten by PlaysonLinux. After installing it, it didn't work, so I figured the whole thing was duff although not a peep out of clamscan.
But how best to restore that file?
The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of my amanda backups already.
Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/
Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part.
wmplayer=Windows Media player?
Probably.
Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine.
I'd assume so, but my wine is elderly, and my cross-something is even older.
Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great.
The .3g2 does play now if its saved as a file, but not if clicked on while still part of an email. Seems like I must invent a better linkage recipe. For that I'd obviously need help, hint hint. :)
In my opinion, it's not a good idea to open such links directly from email; especially if you mean in a web browser, but I don't even like opening links in an email client such as Kmail. I always save to hard disk, then open with my preferred player.
If it came from an unknown src, yes of course. But this was from my son, who is pretty savvy, and would not knowingly send me anything malicious. We once spent several hours trying to hack into each others computers. Despite his was a vista at the time, he had it locked up pretty good. He of course had no better luck getting into mine.
Have you installed all necessary codecs?
Pretty much but I'll check come local daylight...
Changed things around, discovered that mplayer-gui, not mplayer, was required to even get it listed as a choice, installed some more codecs, but one demanded the removal of 90% of the system. Canceled that one. Thats an aptitude trick. I have never, regardless of package format, seen anything that could tear down a perfectly working system like aptitude can. But it still times out. Sigh.
I have only one video in .3g2 format, and it plays in most players: mplayer, mpv, Dragon player, etc. It also used to play in VLC, but that item has been problematic in Jessie (not only for myself, but I've read about others having problems). The recommendation (in the forums) is to use Wheezy repos, but it sounds like you're already running Wheezy.
Yes. And somewhat locked to it because that is the distro the current LinuxCNC is written to run on. I do have one oddball install, jessie on an r-py-3b, running an 11"x54" Sheldon lathe thats about 70 yo.
Besides deb-multimedia, there are some other third-party repositories where you can find "other" packages. MEPIS and MX repositories make packages available from Stretch, Jessie, Wheezy, and I think Sid, but I would use their stuff sparingly, as they are a little funky. I used it to find torbrowser for Jessie, and some packages to make OpenOffice work (thus it is useful); however, it installed an older version of xscreensaver by giving it a superficially "newer" version number. Therefore: useful, but iffy.
Someone mentioned kplayer, but I'm not running KDE, using TDE R14.0.5 which apparently doesn't have that. Theres been so many wrappers around mplayer its confusing.
I keep separate versions of sources.list (under different names), with entries enabled for repositories where I can find specific packages; then I can swap them out easily, then rename it to sources.list, and copy it to /etc/apt/, then run sudo apt-get update. Once I am done, I switch back and do the same, then save the package somewhere, so that I can install it thereafter by using dpkg.
Bill
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Am Freitag 23 März 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
I found this on the web at crunchbang, which says #4 2014-08-20 03:18:57
hvwoax New Member Registered: 2014-08-20 Posts: 1
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
I have a file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdvdnavmini.so.4.1.2 on a Debian wheezy (amd64) system, but can't check now from which package it comes.
packages.debian.org gives no hit for libdvdnavmini.so in all of the newer dists inclusive jessie and apparently you can't search wheezy (oldoldstable) anymore.
I know I have packages installed from debian-multimedia repository as I don't have access to this wheezy system and maybe libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 is from one of them.
HTH, Stefan
Sorry, I got something wrong in the other mail I sent earlier...
Am Freitag 23 März 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
I found this on the web at crunchbang, which says #4 2014-08-20 03:18:57
hvwoax New Member Registered: 2014-08-20 Posts: 1
Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries
I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 and mplayer was back...
But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir.
I'll give this a try.
And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment.
But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the thing now.
I have a file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdvdnavmini.so.4.1.2 on a Debian wheezy (amd64) system, but can't check from which package it comes as I don't have access to this wheezy system now.
packages.debian.org gives no hit for libdvdnavmini.so in all of the newer dists inclusive jessie and apparently you can't search wheezy (oldoldstable) anymore.
I know I have packages installed from debian-multimedia repository on this wheezy system and maybe libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 is from one of them.
HTH, Stefan
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