Having trouble watching videos and audios!

[tantrik]

Hi friends,

I want a thorough and a complete procedure for watching videos on PCLinux Minime 2009.1 KDE 3. The videos that I want to watch are of formats: avi (480p and 720p), mp4 (480p and 720p), mkv (with subtitle), rmvb, flv (flash video downloaded on pc), dvd etc. The fact is I installed mplayer and smplayer but none of them load. Then I installed kaffeine and xine. They load but cannot play the audio part of my mp4 and mkv files. I also cannot watch my flv video files. The fact is I am totally at a loss right now. Cannot watch any video nor listen to music. Is there any detailed procedure/article for installing packages (codecs, players, dependencies etc.) in MiniMe 2009 that will enable me to watch videos of almost every formats and audios too?

MiniMe 2009.1 does not have any media player installed along with codecs for that reason I am not understanding which packages I should download and install to avoid system crashes or hanging. Please help me friends solving this problem.

Thanks in advance.

[Bald Brick]

Welcome to the forums, Tantric!

To play DVDs you need what Old-Polack lists in this post:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,66672.msg542316.html#msg542316.

For some video formats you need the package win32-codecs-all as well. If you want to play embedded videos in a browser you may need any number of plugins.

But Mplayer not working is a bit worrying. Usually Mplayer and SMPlayer will handle whatever you throw at them. So will VLC. Is your system fully updated?

If it isn't, that could explain the mystery of Mplayer not loading.