On Wednesday 06 January 2021 05:59:43 Steven D'Aprano via tde-users wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 05:04:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > I followed the instructions there, made no diff. Now have 6 players > > in the menu, but none work. > > Define "none work". Does nothing launch at all? Do you get a "busy" > mouse cursor but no window opens? Does a window open but then it > crashes? Something else? All launch, and all ignore but show in the titlebars, the file selected, but they won't play it. > > What happens if you launch the player from the command line? > > mplayer myvideo.avi protectng the many spaces filename with double quotes, gets this response in a konsole: gene@coyote:~/AppImages$ cd ../dwhelper gene@coyote:~/dwhelper$ ls -l total 6860 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 4626478 May 19 2015 Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Product Guides.mp4 -rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 2396013 May 19 2015 Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Quick Reference Poster.mp4 gene@coyote:~/dwhelper$ mplayer "Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Product Guides.mp4" MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian), built with gcc-6.2.1 (C) 2000-2016 MPlayer Team do_connect: could not connect to socket connect: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing Intel® Desktop Board D525MW — Product Guides.mp4. libavformat version 57.56.101 (external) Mismatching header version 57.56.100 libavformat file format detected. [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f666212ad00]moov atom not found LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed libavformat file format detected. [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7f666212ad00]moov atom not found LAVF_header: av_open_input_stream() failed Exiting... (End of file) And I repeat, what the heck is a "moov atom"? > > Will the players play *any* multimedia formats at all? Not sure, I don't have a huge assortment stashed. > > https://filesamples.com/categories/video and mplayer plays one of the full screen samples flawlessly. 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
