On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, got it to work at least with the one url; haven't tried others. but I'm > not sure I'd advise using the debian installer. for one thing, it appeared to > try to install alsa on me which I didn't want, and I'm not at all sure the > installer was doing all that needed to be done as I couldn't play anything when > I used it to install mplayer. > I stil will probably have to look over the packages and reinstall; for one > thing, the ./configure for the main mplayer package said there wasn't support > for oggvorbis which I do have but maybe the path in debian is different or > something. At any rate, I'm getting further by just installing the individual > packages than I did by using the installer. Hmmm, can you tell me what configure options you used? I can't get .asx streams to work, it keeps moaning that the file is not an url, which is of course rubbish because it's fed directly to it, and I even used mailcap files in Lynx. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
