On Wednesday 06 January 2021 02:54:03 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > Like yourself, I imagine, I hate change, hate the need to rebuild my > > system that was working just fine. But once that release is no > > longer supported, it doesn't make much sense to keep using it for > > years beyond its security updates; whereas Buster/Beowulf LTS will > > be supported for -- how long is it? -- 5-7 more years. > > Yes indeed - I can use a VM as a guinea pig, but not my own PC, so > usually I would wait a bit after a release updating my production > system(s). The good thing is that many people use testing and report > back issues, so that these issues get solved. > I do not see a reason not to upgrade to stable couple of months before > it becomes old stable. > > Just install and try mplayer from the command line - I am sure it was > working fine with mp4 files under stretch. > > read this: https://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs > I followed the instructions there, made no diff. Now have 6 players in the menu, but none work. This all Just Worked a year ago running wheezy. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinity >desktop.org Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
