Further to my previous post I discovered that by deleting the mplayer
configuration in the user's home directory I could then get mlayer to
start from the command line although it would still have the same
problem with videos on the web.
I realised that on the machine that did work it did have a load of
codecs in /usr/lib/codecs which the problem machine didn't have so I
installed the w32codecs package and now it all works after a fashion.
I say that because after starting, stopping and relaoding a webcam
about 2-3 times it goes back to it's old behaviour until the browser is
closed and re-started.
Anyone with ideas on that please?
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Barry Samuels
http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk
The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain
