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Re:Ubuntu Laptop support
Reply #15 on: April 04, 2006, 23:19:45 PM
Quote from: Mongoose
the sound in Totem works for MP3s and OGGs, but not for DivX or XviD encoded video. I dont have any MPEG video to test it with, so not sure if it works with that.

VLC seems to play just about whatever I throw at it.


Totem worked with xvid just fine on my Breezy install. Did you grab the mplayer codecs from here decompress and put in a folder: /usr/lib/win32?

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Re:Ubuntu Laptop support
Reply #16 on: April 05, 2006, 08:07:09 AM
VLC is great for streaming radio now too. Just click on the playlist button > Manage > Services discovery > Shoutcast = Voila! 1000s of radio stations at your fingertips. :)

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the sound in Totem works for MP3s and OGGs, but not for DivX or XviD encoded video.


Looks like a codec issue.

Can you do this from the terminal ?:
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root@yourbox[/]$ xine --list-plugins =demux

You should get something like:
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Available xines plugins:
   -Audio output:
     alsa, oss, arts, esd, file, none.

   -Video output:
     dxr3, aadxr3, xv, opengl, aa, caca, xshm, none, sdl, vidix, vidixfb, fb.

   -Demuxer:
     anx, asf, aud, aiff, flac, nsf, realaudio, snd, voc, vox, mod, avi, fli,
     flashvideo, wve, idcin, ipmovie, vqa, wc3movie, roq, str, film, smjpeg,
     fourxm, vmd, iff, matroska, mng, mpeg_block, mpeg_pes, mpeg-ts, nsv, ogg,
     pva, quicktime, real, slave, yuv4mpeg2, mpeg, ac3, dts, cdda, wav, rawdv,
     flac, aac, mp3, mpc, shn, elem, sputext, yuv_frames.

   -Input:
     gnomevfs, CD, DVB, DVD, FILE, http, mms, tcp, pnm, pvr, rtp, rtsp, smb,
     stdin, v4l_radio, v4l_tv, VCD, VCDO.

   -Subpicture:
     dxr3-spudec, spudec, spucc, spucmml, spudvb, sputext.

   -Post processing:
     upmix, upmix_mono, stretch, goom, mosaico, expand, fill, invert, eq,
     denoise3d, boxblur, eq2, unsharp, pp, switch, tvtime, oscope, fftscope,
     fftgraph.

   -Audio decoder:
     gsm610, mad, ffmpegaudio, flacdec, a/52, dvaudio, mpc, realadec, nsf,
     speex, vorbis, dts, faad, pcm, qta, win32a.

   -Video decoder:
     dxr3-mpeg2, mpeg2, real, ffmpegvideo, theora, bitplane, qtv, rgb, win32v,
     yuv, ffmpeg-wmv8.


Which shows that my Xine Engine is capable of playing 90% of the media I throw at it. :)

Re:Ubuntu Laptop support
Reply #17 on: April 05, 2006, 18:59:49 PM
thanks skidzilla,

I tried to run the command you suggested, but I cant get to the root acount!

am I being dense?

su root

password

results in "authentication failed, sorry"

does it set the root password to something other than the user password you enter when installing?

Ubuntu Laptop support
Reply #18 on: April 05, 2006, 19:04:45 PM
Ubuntu uses "sudo"

so if you want to run something as root:

$ sudo gedit
$ password: *****

or you can "alt + f2" and use the graphical version:

gksudo nameofapp

password is your own password.

Same system as OS X, and you can disable it if ya want, just search ubuntuforums.org if you want a traditional root approach.

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