On Friday 23 March 2018 12:30:17 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 23 March 2018 04:13:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 23 March 2018 03:37:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 23 March 2018 03:16:52 deloptes wrote: > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > Sorry Kate. After changing the video/mpeg4 from noatun to > > > > > mplayer, it does fire off mplayer, but apparently something is > > > > > missing there too, as all I get is 30 seconds worth of the > > > > > bouncing curser. And no error logged anyplace. > > > > > > > > > > Next? > > > > > > > > what is the output of mplayer when you run it from the command > > > > line? > > > > > > > > mplayer <filename> > > > > > > Had to save it from the mail, but > > > > > > gene@coyote:~/Public$ mplayer ./video3gpp2950.3g2 > > > mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libdvdnavmini.so.4: > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > > > See my prev msg. > > snip > > > > Re: [solved] mplayer2 fails to load libraries > > > > I had just done a dist-upgrade in Sid and got the mplayer error. > > Package libdvdnav4 was installed but libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 not > > in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu! > > So I copied the symlink and the lib from the deb... > > And then did ln -s libdvdnav.so.4.1.2 libdvdnavmini.so.4 > > and mplayer was back... > > > > But my copy of it is in the /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu subdir. > > > > I'll give this a try. > > > > And I think it works, the *.* version plays something, but it wasn't > > the saved file. Clicking on the file in kmail gets me a requester or 3 > > complaining about the skin, and eventually fails w/o playing the > > targeted file from a kmail click on the attachment. > > > > But the saved file does play, so the "skin" error seems to be the > > thing now. > > And the /home/gene/Desktop/wmplayer.Desktop appears to have been > overwritten by PlaysonLinux. After installing it, it didn't work, so I > figured the whole thing was duff although not a peep out of clamscan. > > But how best to restore that file? > > The bad file has been there long enough that the good one has aged out of > my amanda backups already. > Don't know, some thoughts or $.02 worth/ Seems to be Windows Media file, MP4 is the container I think the .3g2 is the WM part. wmplayer=Windows Media player? Play on Linux is Wine, (POL) w9ndows Media player probably works with POL and/or wine. Handbrake claims to transcode any format, I use it on my DVD collection..works great. greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting