[MPlayer-users] 2 questions

[Jack Slater]

i was able to "downgrade" the ap to play everything except Real video.
Thanks for the help!

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Phil Rhodes <phil_rhodes at rocketmail.com>wrote:

> The version of mplayer that comes on the eee-pc is horribly crippled -
> won't
> play back h.264, although you need to be conservative with what you ask
> that
> hardware to decode anyway.
>
> I presume it's some sort of licensing restriction. Unfortunately, the eee
> also suffers from the standard Linux issue that what's in the default
> available-software list is basically what's already installed. This means
> that getting a full-bore mplayer going is, by Windows standards, a rather
> painful experience involving much swearing and cursing, following obscure
> partially-complete online guides, being told ur a n00b lus3r in IRC
> channels, hacking at obscure text files, and in our case doing the
> factory-reset thing several times.
>
> We did eventually get it to go but I have no memory of how and nothing
> approaching a note on the subject. The only advice I can give you is this:
> absolutely never, ever, under any circumstances, no matter what anyone
> tells
> you, should you type "apt-get upgrade."
>
>
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