<p>Hmm,
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<p>It appears that this is a case of a file format that the internal player cannot handle:
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<p><a href="http://www.avenard.org/media/Patches_&_Add-Ons/Entries/2009/5/14_Watch_video_using_default_external_player_easily.html">http://www.avenard.org/media/Patches_%26_Add-Ons/Entries/2009/5/14_Watch_video_using_default_external_player_easily.html</a>
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<p>Pressing "I" and "Watch This Video (default player)" and it works, oh well, thats progress :-)
</p>
<p>Cheers
</p>
<p>Douglas.
</p>
<p>Quoting Douglas Pearless <Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz>:
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<p>In the end I decided to do a clean re-install and now my system works a lot better.
</p>
<p>I have one issue left, some VOB files will not play so I used mplayer in a shell to see what was happening and I got:
</p>
<p>MPEG-PS file format detected.
<br />VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 3) 25.000 fps 7000.0 kbps (875.0 kbyte/s)
<br />open: No such file or directory
<br />[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
<br />open: No such file or directory
<br />[MGA] Couldn't open: /dev/mga_vid
<br />[VO_TDFXFB] Can't open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory.
<br />[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
<br />==========================================================================
<br />Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
<br />VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
<br />Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
<br />Opening video filter: [scale]
<br />The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
<br />Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
<br />e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
<br />VDecoder init failed :(
<br />Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
<br />Unsupported PixelFormat -1
<br />Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
<br />==========================================================================
<br />==========================================================================
<br />Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
<br />Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
<br />Using MMX optimized resampler
<br />AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
<br />Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
<br />==========================================================================
<br />AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
<br />Starting playback...
<br />VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
<br />VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
<br />Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
<br />VO: [vdpau] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12
<br />A: 2.2 V: 2.2 A-V: 0.016 ct: 0.046 56/ 56 7% 13% 0.4% 0 0
<br />
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<p>Any ideass?
</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Cheers
</p>
<p>Douglas.
</p>
<p>Quoting Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard@gmail.com>:
<br />
<br />> Hi
<br />>
<br />> 2009/6/24 Douglas Pearless <Douglas.Pearless@pearless.co.nz>:
<br />>> Have you put these up as I cannot see them yet?
<br />>
<br />> Must be running Ubuntu jaunty and have enabled the "bleeding" repository.
<br />> <a href="http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html" target="_blank">http://www.avenard.org/media/Ubuntu_Repository/Ubuntu_Repository.html</a>
<br />>
<br />> There are definitely there ...
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