Video Troubles
Yesterday, after an almost flawless two or three years of playing videos on my Linux-based laptop, I was reminded of JWZ’s rant on the state of playing video under Linux. Two days ago I updated my xine-lib package. Unfortunately, that left me without the ability to play MPEG videos (ironically MOV videos still worked) and it wasn’t until yesterday that I noticed. A quick search revealed some issues with the ffmpeg package, so I updated ffmpeg to the latest version. Still no go. So I tried the latest versions of xine-lib and win32codecs. Alas, still nothing. So the bad news is that I can’t play any MPEG videos but I’m sure that the OSS community will come through, be it a Gentoo problem or something upstream. Worst case, I guess I can always rollback to an older version of xine-lib.
Update: a rollback to xine-lib-1.0.1 and ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20050226 works just fine; think I’ll stay with those versions for now.
Thu, 22 Dec 2005 18:37
