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troncoso

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Registered: 2008-08-28

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[SOLVED] Can't play flv videos

I've just downloaded a video from YouTube and I can't watch it. My desktop is KDE so my first option was Dragon, but it doesn't show the pictures: the sound is OK but the screen is black.

My other option was mplayer. Here I have both sound and pictures, but the pictures are very, very slow.

Any quick tips? Am I missing something? Thanks.

Last edited by troncoso (2009-02-28 08:09:31)

R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play flv videos

I know VLC can play that .... but it has a ton load of dependencies (codecs mostly I think).

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agapito

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Registered: 2008-11-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play flv videos

smplayer is the best player...

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Procyon

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play flv videos

mplayer should be able to do that without problems.

Did you use the right -vo device? Do you have a ~/.mplayer/config?

troncoso

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Registered: 2008-08-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't play flv videos

mplayer should be able to do that without problems.

It certainly can. I had chosen the wrong video output driver (gl) on the GUI (gmplayer). Selecting xv made the difference.

Thanks a lot.