Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread John Oliver
It'd odd that handbrake would work but mplayer wouldn't as if I recall correctly handbrake uses mencoder for its encoding operations. Perhaps you should try reinstalling mencoder? Jools Wills wrote: >> I would by reinstalling vlc see if it has any package missing as you >> suggest. >> I do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Jools Wills
> I would by reinstalling vlc see if it has any package missing as you suggest. > I don't think you need adobe, gnash should play it as well. flv is a container format. may contain Sorenson Spark, vp6, h264 for video and mp3/aac etc for audio. any player that uses the ffmpeg (or libav) libraries

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Andres
Liam Proven escribió: >On 6 January 2014 10:45, Nigel Verity wrote: >> I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and have recently lost the ability to play >FLV >> video files, regardless of their source. The files themselves play >perfectly >> when I copy them to another machine with the same version of the O

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Liam Proven
On 6 January 2014 10:45, Nigel Verity wrote: > I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and have recently lost the ability to play FLV > video files, regardless of their source. The files themselves play perfectly > when I copy them to another machine with the same version of the OS, so it's > not a corruption p

[ubuntu-uk] FLV Video Problem

2014-01-06 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi I'm running Xubuntu 12.04 and have recently lost the ability to play FLV video files, regardless of their source. The files themselves play perfectly when I copy them to another machine with the same version of the OS, so it's not a corruption problem. Clearly I have somehow deleted or dama