Hi. It seems that you don't have either Alsasound or oss installed? You will have to install one of these before you can use audio support. And in terms of xlib6g, this is one of the many xwindows libraries. It will be needed for video playback whenever you wish to play video and audio. I just got them because I thought that I might watch movies under X with friends in the future, so its good to have it now rather than later. As far as I know, the files mentioned in Johann's guide are still applicable. Hope this helps. > At 06:03 AM 8/14/02 -0500, you wrote: > >I used the debian installer to install mplayer; I am trying to use it > >with streams as I don't have a dvd. But having read Johan's guide from > >several months ago, I am a bit confused. do I also need to download and > >install the other files in addition to what the debian installer does? > >strangely, the installer gave me no errors even though I didn't have > >xlib6g on my system. So maybe I will have to re-run the installer now > >that I have this on my system. > >obviously > >I still have some configuring to do or something, because when I tried > >http://acw.activate.net/kplu/kplu.asx > >which was asked about on another list, I got > > > >Playing mms://wmr02sea.activate.net/kplu > >Connecting to server wmr02sea.activate.net:80 ... > >Connecting to server wmr02sea.activate.net:80 ... > >Cache size set to 16 KBytes > >Connected to server: wmr02sea.activate.net > >Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Detected ASF file format! > >Detected audio codec: [divx] afm:4 (DivX audio (WMA)) > >Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=4) not available (enable it at > compile > >time!) > >Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> nosound > >Audio: no sound!!! > >Video: no video!!! > > > > > >Exiting... (End of file) > > > >The debian mplayer installer page doesn't mention having to have other files, > >but it appears to me that this must be necessary. Should i just add in all > the > >files listed in the previously posted guide or have there been changes in > what > >is needed? > >Thanks. > > > >Cheryl > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > cheryl could you help me compile this mplayer or scould someone? > I have slackware 8.1 It is installed, so compile isn't the right word, but > it's complaining aabout /dev/mga_vid not being able to be opened. > I'm running kernel 2.2.20 for net support, but everything's working fine > other than mplayer. > if anyone can help, please email me privately. > Thanks. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
