Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-22 Thread Steven Sciame
I got the latest vanilla kernel 2.6.38 from kernel.org and that fixed both the mouse disappearing problem and the wmv video lockup problem.

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 15:16, Steven Sciame wrote: > > I understand what you are saying, but nothing responds. The mouse > moves, but nothing is able to be clicked on. No menu's, windows, > nothing. I waited for 10 minutes and still nothing. Depending on your system nice settings 10 minutes isn't very

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
have any other media players installed.  I try to put trust in the stable distro by leaving as much default as possible to maximize the chances of everything working.  --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 14:07, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > I was not able to play it in Totem. I got the same result as trying to > play it through iceweasel (mouse moves but everything is unresponsive, > with the only way out being a hard power cycle) > > This was fine before 6.0.1 > If the mouse moves

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 8:30 PM On 22/03/11 12:04, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > I apologize, but I do not know the example movie that you referenced. It's the example you gave. I ca

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
on't run Gnome so I can't tell you if Totem will play .wmv files (w32 codecs??). > > --- On *Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson > //* wrote: > > > From: Scott Ferguson > Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1 > To: debian-user@lis

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I apologize, but I do not know the example movie that you referenced. --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 7:49 PM On 22/03/11 06:21

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Steven Sciame
I am using Totem 2.30.2 plugin in iceweasel  libtotem-gmp-plugin.so -Steven - On Mon, 3/21/11, Scott Ferguson wrote: From: Scott Ferguson Subject: Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 21, 2011, 7:49 PM On 22/03/11

Re: wmv locks entire system ever since upgrade to 6.0.1

2011-03-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/03/11 06:21, Steven Sciame wrote: > Since upgrading to 6.0.1 playing wmv from iceweasel locks entire > system. The only way to unlock is to hold power button until machine > shuts off and then reboots (not necessarily a good idea) > > Here is one example of a page that did it to me: > > ht

What about wma (was Re: wmv)

2007-08-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote: Bob King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu? mplayer What about .wma files? I have tried Xine and MPlayer and I do have the w32codecs installed. Both players say that they are playing the file, but I get no audio

Re: wmv

2007-08-27 Thread giglio robbo' d'acciaio
Bob King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu? mplayer -- Daniele Giglio Dona i tuoi cicli di clock alla ricerca! dgiglio(a)iol.it http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Legge di Cornuelle: L'autor

Re: wmv

2007-08-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:15:40 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu? > > What do the Ubuntu forums say? > > (I can tell you how to do it on Debian, but Ubuntu is... different > in subtle ways.) Yes, but I'm sure the process of enabling the playing o

Re: wmv

2007-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/26/07 03:55, Bob King wrote: > Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu? What do the Ubuntu forums say? (I can tell you how to do it on Debian, but Ubuntu is... different in subtle ways.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a f