[nzlug] Xine codecs and Mepis

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, August 5, 2007 9:46 pm, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> I found codecs to play nearly any DVD with Xine in Fedora Core 6.
> Where might I find similar for Xine in Mepis?  From what I could work
> out from the standard repos I could get some DVDs to work, but there
> are evidently other codecs required.
>
> TIA

All dvd's use a limited set of codecs.

For video it is always mpeg2

for audio it can be pcm/wav, ac3, mp2 or dts. pcm/wav should be covered
already. ac3 and dts need to be installed for those to work.

dpkg -L|grep ac3
dpkg -L|grep dts



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