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 <b...@exotica.org.uk> wrote: >> 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 will be able to >play them back, so it is likely to be a missing dependency/library. > >Best Regards > >Jools > >-- >ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
