On Wed, 08 May 2013 20:34:23 -0600 Paul Condon <pecond...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I installed Wheezy on a HP computer which had been running Squeeze > about a week or two ago. I've done installs of Debian many times > before on other hardware, and earlier versions of Debian. This > install went very smoothly, but ... I just noticed today that I can't > play video clips in Iceweasel, no moving picture and no sound. And in > Google Chrome, I can get the moving picture, but no sound. When it > was running Squeeze, video clips were working fine, but I recall > there was lots of magic in getting Squeeze video to work long ago. What kind of video clips? I suspect you may need to install flashplugin-nonfree for flash support on the web. > This time I was hoping for a 'automagic' install, and until today > when I discovered the video problem it had been fully automagic. What > should I look for? Perhaps a package dependency is missing. Or what? > What is the names of the video/sound packages that are used with > Xfce4? (Come to think of it, I was running Gnome2 under Squeeze (and > I don't remember tha package names from then)) As I remember, there > were many competing video/sound packages with not much to distinguish > them except that some worked for some people and others worked for > other people. What is the situation now? I use vlc myself for audio and video. It will play most anything AV related. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130509005833.4e6d2...@debian.ok.shawcable.net
