[nzlug] Xine codecs and Mepis

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Mon, 06-Aug-2007 at 09:44AM +1200 (give or take), Nick Rout wrote:

|> 
|> 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

But aren't there ones to do with encryption?  I find that PuppyLinux
can play the DVDs in quesion without anything additional from what
comes in its 93 Mb iso file.  Could it be that Mepis has to keep its
nose clean and avoid any danger of lawsuits?

|> 
|> 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

I get this:
$ dpkg -L|grep ac3
dpkg-query: --listfiles needs at least one package name or argument

Did you mean 
dpkg -l|grep ac3

That gives more or less the same as 
aptitude search ac3  
and that gives only one package which is already installed.

aptitude search dts indicates a development package which I'd have
thought would not be necessary.  I installed it anyway, but with no
difference.

Could it be that I need to use additional repositories and if so, what
is an intelligent way of finding sensible ones to use?




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