[nflug] XEN

[Robert Meyer]

Xine and Kaffeine look for the Win32 codecs in /usr/lib/win32 or
/usr/local/lib/win32...  Depends on the install.

Cheers!

Bob

--- Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Darin Perusich wrote:
> > if you install OpenSuSE 10.1 make sure that you perform the online
> > update durning installation to apply all the system patches. the
> > packaging system is pretty busted and it's way easier if they're applied
> > during install then afterwards.
> > 
> > on second thought if you choose OpenSuSE stick with 10.0 and wait until
> > 10.2 so they can fix everything that novell forced them to push out the
> > door.
> > 
> uh-oh. It'a bit late for that kind of thinking. Actually, 10.1 has been 
> working pretty well here, particularly in getting all the 3D stuff 
> (bzflag, blender, cube, etc) going with no hassles at all (where I spent 
> months trying unsuccessfully to get that set up in 10. For some reason 
> that I don't understand the final install step (hardware) still fails, 
> and I get nothing but a black screen trying to run sax2, but as long as 
> the GL/3D stuff works, I don't care. I have been doing the update at the 
> end of the suse install regularly from the start (and I've broken this 
> system enough times that that's quite a few times).
> 
> The only real trouble I've found is in playing videos of various kinds. 
> I have installed the w32codecs various times, and I see all the usual 
> suspects in /usr/lib/codecs, but mplayer is the only player that will 
> play avis, mpegs, and the like. I also have libdvdread-0.9.4-160, and 
> libdvdcss 2-1.2.9-1 installed, but once again mplayer will only play 
> dvds jerkily (unwatchably). Xine and Kaffeine won't seem to play 
> anything, do they (or suse) look elsewhere for them?
> 
> If you knew the solution for THAT one, I would be truly grateful.
> 
> I miss my kaffeine ;-).
> 
> Thanks,
> S.
> 
> 
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