[NTLUG:Discuss] MPG movies not playing

Courtney Grimland cgrimland at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 28 06:59:00 CDT 2002


I use mplayer for all video files.  I haven't found a format yet that it
can't handle, and it can use *many* different video and audio output
drivers.  The conversion utilities of mplayer are amazing.  It's one of
the greatest multimedia tools I've ever found, on any platform.


On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:50:42 -0700
Steve <steve at cyberianhamster.com> wrote:

> 
> Sometimes, I get sound with no video. Sometimes not much of anything. 
> But I never see any video. Screen's just blank. Tried using Xine and 
> XMovie (on a Mandrake 9.0 Beta), but no luck. Doesn't seem like it's a
> 
> problem of a particular application as opposed to something basic in
> my Linux setup. Files open fine in MacOS X or Windows so I know it's
> not the file.
> 
> Sort of a basic function that I can't do. :P Any suggestions?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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