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mplayer package

  1. Bug #675179
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 675179

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mlx (myxal-mxl) wrote : Re: SMplayer doesn't display video in MKV files where video isn't the first stream (mplayer works)

Looking through the berlios topic and my logs, it is indeed the same problem (not sure why mplayer always launches mplayer with -vid 0 on first play). I was using medibuntu's mplayer (version 1.0~rc4~try1.dsfg1-1ubuntu1+medibuntu1) but I believe it's also in the stock ubuntu version (haven't tried - whoever's interested, get a random mkv file and re-mux it so that video isn't the first stream, then play it by running mplayer -vid 0 file.mkv ).

I've since moved to Ripp's mplayer-coreavc> https://launchpad.net/~ripps818/+archive/coreavc which is a fresh build which incorporates an upstream fix - see this bug-report> http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1814