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[o2smartphone]

I have some video playable on psp in the above format.

I have no problem playing them in Ubuntu 7.10, however in eeepc, I can only get audio.
In mplayer it said h264 is missing, I try to install w32codecs but it complaint that the libc6 is too low.

I will not like to use other player. Any sugguestion ?

messages return from mplayer regarding the video portion :
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ISO: File Type Major Brand: ISO/IEC 14496-1 (MPEG-4 system) v2
Quicktime/MOV file format detected.
VIDEO: [avc1] 480x272 24bpp 23.981 fps
===================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Cannot find codec 'h264' in libavcodec...
VDecoder init failed : (
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x31637661.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
==========================================

Edited by o2smartphone, 01 November 2007 - 03:38 AM.

[Feanor]

You could try upgrading libc6 or finding an older version of the h.264 codec.
Alternatively, try installing the binary codec package from the MPlayer site:
http://www.mplayerhq...ign7/dload.html

[o2smartphone]

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You could try upgrading libc6 or finding an older version of the h.264 codec.
Alternatively, try installing the binary codec package from the MPlayer site:
http://www.mplayerhq...ign7/dload.html

The involvement of libc6 is too great so I do not try that.
I have placed all codecs inside essential-20071007 to /usr/lib/codecs
the reseult is the same.

Where can I find a workable h.264 codec ?

[cartoon_nate]

By far the best way is to apt-get install "downgrade" to etch mplayer. First put in your sources line the etch repos and apt-get update. Then do
"sudo apt-get install mplayer=1.0~rc1-12etch1".

[o2smartphone]

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By far the best way is to apt-get install "downgrade" to etch mplayer. First put in your sources line the etch repos and apt-get update. Then do
"sudo apt-get install mplayer=1.0~rc1-12etch1".

Downgrade mplayer ? Will it affect my previous no problem of viewing rmvb ?

[cartoon_nate]

Indeed, "downgrading" would do nothing except reenable codes that were disabled as a result of patent law/licensing issues.
Please note, however, h.264 is extremely processor intensive so only "medium" resos should work without skipping. Don't even think about getting HD h.264s to work smoothly.

Edit: You should also add deb "http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main" to your sources line.


Right now, it's still early in the days for the eeepc community but eventually, a great idea would be that all you'd have to do is app get update by *replacing* the eeepc repo with an unofficial repo, do an app-get update and all these issues would be fixed for you.

Edited by cartoon_nate, 01 November 2007 - 12:28 PM.

[o2smartphone]

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Indeed, "downgrading" would do nothing except reenable codes that were disabled as a result of patent law/licensing issues.
Please note, however, h.264 is extremely processor intensive so only "medium" resos should work without skipping. Don't even think about getting HD h.264s to work smoothly.

Edit: You should also add deb "http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main" to your sources line.


Right now, it's still early in the days for the eeepc community but eventually, a great idea would be that all you'd have to do is app get update by *replacing* the eeepc repo with an unofficial repo, do an app-get update and all these issues would be fixed for you.

Well, I will wait until somebody got it run on the eeepc, thx :)

[cartoon_nate]

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Well, I will wait until somebody got it run on the eeepc, thx :)

I got h.264 working on my eeepc by doing this "downgrade"

[o2smartphone]

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Well, I will wait until somebody got it run on the eeepc, thx :)

I got h.264 working on my eeepc by doing this "downgrade"

How is the performance ?

[o2smartphone]

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Indeed, "downgrading" would do nothing except reenable codes that were disabled as a result of patent law/licensing issues.
Please note, however, h.264 is extremely processor intensive so only "medium" resos should work without skipping. Don't even think about getting HD h.264s to work smoothly.

Edit: You should also add deb "http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main" to your sources line.


Right now, it's still early in the days for the eeepc community but eventually, a great idea would be that all you'd have to do is app get update by *replacing* the eeepc repo with an unofficial repo, do an app-get update and all these issues would be fixed for you.

Public key not available, what to do next ?

[o2smartphone]

I found in the Synaptic Package Manager
the installed version of mplayer is 1.0~rc1-12etchxandros10

When I look into the package properties
the latest Available version is 1:1.0-rc1svn20070225-0.3etch1

also available versions are
1.0~rc1-12etchxandros5 (update.eeepc.asus.com)
1.0~rc1-12etchxandros4 (update.eeepc.asus.com)

I tried to downgrade to 1.0~rc1-12etchxandros5 but then the package is broken, luckily I can still use mplayer.

[o2smartphone]

But this player give me only sound in DivX, and No audio / Video for H264.
So I do a F9 restore and get back my DivX and sound for H264.

[DonkeyBeliever]

I thought VLC media player had playback support for h.264? why not install VLC? However it might require some newer libs too, but not sure, give it a shot.

[o2smartphone]

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I thought VLC media player had playback support for h.264? why not install VLC? However it might require some newer libs too, but not sure, give it a shot.

is the command sudo apt-get vlc ?

[darklord]

I'm new with the whole command line stuff, and new to Linux in general.

I tried to add the new server but got the same public key not available that someone mentioned.

and then I could not downgrade to the earlier version.

would someone mind posting a step by step that I Could follow so that I could get these video files to work?


thanks!

[renwklo]

I installed VLC from the debian multimedia repo and I can watch H.264/AVC video now!

sudo su
wget http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/pool/main/d/debian-multimedia-keyring/debian-multimedia-keyring_2007.02.14_all.deb
dpkg -i debian-multimedia-keyring_2007.02.14_all.deb
nano -w /etc/apt/sources.list

add to the list:

deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ stable main

Ctrl + X and press Y to save and exit.

apt-get update
apt-get install vlc

[darklord]

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apt-get install vlc

everything worked until this last command

I got:

reading package lists... done
building dependency tree... done
E: couldn't find package vlc

help?

[renwklo]

This is my sources.list, may be you can use it and apt-get update again ;)

deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701 p701 main
deb http://update.eeepc.asus.com/p701/en p701 main

deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/4.0/pkg/ xandros4.0-xn main contrib non-free

#deb http://xnv4.xandros.com/4.0/upkg-i386/ unsupported4.0-xn main contrib non-free
deb http://dccamirror.xandros.com/dccri/ dccri-3.0 main
deb http://www.archlug.org/apt/ xandros4 archlug
deb http://www.archlug.org/apt/ xandros4 xorid/andrew
deb http://www.archlug.org/apt/ xandros4 xorid/matty
deb http://www.archlug.org/apt/ xandros4 xorid/uploads 

deb http://ftp.twaren.net.tw/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.tw.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ stable main
#deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free

[m67i]

Is SMplayer the same thing as Mplayer?

[o2smartphone]

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Is SMplayer the same thing as Mplayer?

It is the front end.