On Wednesday 06 January 2021 05:59:43 Steven D'Aprano via tde-users wrote:
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 05:04:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett via tde-users
wrote:
I followed the instructions there, made no diff. Now have 6 players in the menu, but none work.
Define "none work". Does nothing launch at all? Do you get a "busy" mouse cursor but no window opens? Does a window open but then it crashes? Something else?
All launch, and all ignore but show in the titlebars, the file selected, but they won't play it.
What happens if you launch the player from the command line?
mplayer myvideo.avi
protectng the many spaces filename with double quotes, gets this response in a konsole:
gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ cd ../dwhelper gene@coyote:~/dwhelper$ ls -l total 6860 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4626478 May 19 2015 Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Product Guides.mp4 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 2396013 May 19 2015 Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Quick Reference Poster.mp4 gene@coyote:~/dwhelper$ mplayer "Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Product Guides.mp4" MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-6.2.1 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team do_connect: could not connect to socket connect: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Product Guides.mp4. libavformat version 57.56.101 (external) Mismatching header version 57.56.100 libavformat file format detected. [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f666212ad00]moov atom not found LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed libavformat file format detected. [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f666212ad00]moov atom not found LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed
Exiting... (End of file)
And I repeat, what the heck is a "moov atom"?
Will the players play *any* multimedia formats at all?
Not sure, I don't have a huge assortment stashed.
and mplayer plays one of the full screen samples flawlessly.
Cheers, Gene Heskett