On 05/07/05, Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 22:02:33 -0400 > "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Christian Marillat maintains some mplayer packages: > > > > > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main > > > deb-src http://perso.wanadoo.fr/debian/ unstable main > > > > Are you suggesting, then, that I should try adding those to > > sources.list and apt-get install mplayer? (And, by the bye, what is > > the difference between deb and deb-src? What is the source?) > > If looks like Marillat compiles his packages with live-media support > so if the reason for compiling your own is to get that in, then you > could just apt-get the marillat packages and be done with it. At least > it seems worth a shot.;) He does supply packages for tesing and stable > as well, so replace unstable with whatever you happen to be using. > > Both of these archives belong to Marillat, I don't know why they point > to different web addresses. As with Debian it's self deb archives are > binary packages and deb-src archives are source packages. So when you > do the command line: > > apt-get source mplayer > > : it would pull from the deb-src address and download to the directory > you ran the command from. > > Marillat provides other related packages as well w32codecs, transcode, > mozilla plugin, and some other media related packages. > > Later, Seeker
Well, after much fiddling around, I managed to get it to work. There may be a problem with the sound level; I'm still working on that. However, I am finding very slow indeed. Is this normal? Thanky ou kindly for your assistance.
