On 5/18/05, Michael Appleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Michael Appleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/16/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Monday 16 May 2005 18:40, Michael Appleman wrote:
> > > > For some reason the video in movie files with divx video doesn't show
> > > > anymore. The sound plays fine, but the video is just blank. wmv and 
> > > > plain
> > > > mpeg2 videos play fine. I have the complete codec pack from the mplayer
> > > > website installed, same as before when it worked. I even tried purging
> > > > kaffeine and reinstalling it, but still no go. Any ideas? I'm using
> > > > testing.
> > >
> > > Are they the same divx videos that used to work?  If not, don't assume 
> > > that
> > > they should.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, try running kaffeine from the console, to see what messages you
> > > get.  Also, try xine, since it uses the same engine, and maybe mplayer 
> > > too.
> > > Another thing is that you could try rebooting, in case your xv or x11 
> > > driver
> > > somehow got messed up.  It does *sound* OK from judging from the way you 
> > > say
> > > that mpeg2 vids play alright, but it's worth checking, nonetheless.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lee.
> > >
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> > Yeah, these are the same vids that used to work (ogm, mkv, and avi
> > files). I ran kaffeine from the console and nothing jumped out at me,
> > I attached the output so you could take a look. Thanks!
> >
> Well I got around to rebooting, and still no go. Also tried it in
> normal xine, and I got a dialog box that icouldn't fully read, the
> text went off the window. I attached a screenshot of it. The video
> didn't show. And I went to try in mplayer, but apparantly there is no
> mplayer package in testing?
> 
> "Stregone:/home/stregone# wajig install mplayer
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package mplayer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package mplayer has no installation candidate"
> 
Whoops, I forgot to attach the file.

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