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Extra Codecs for Xine on Debian

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

More of a note to self, but I thought I’d blog it since I haven’t for a very long while! Anyway, I finally got around to patching in a few extra codecs into my Debian install the other day and it was surprisingly easy.

• first off I downloaded the file: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2 from the MPlayer site
• next I extracted it and renamed the directory it created to codec
• this new directory was then moved to /usr/lib/
• finally a symlink was created so it also showed as /usr/lib/win32/

Not entirely sure whether working with it symlinked is necessary, or whether simply creating it as win32 would have done. It works OK though, so I’m not really complaining!

So why haven’t I linked the download? Well I’ve just checked it and there’s been an update, so this looks to be the latest version:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2

So I’m downloading that for an update!

Tags: codec, Debian, mplayer, win32, xine
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Splitting the Atom

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

OK, a very quick update here to note that I’ve made a few modifications to my Blosxom install. First off I’ve added a calendar plugin (currently on the left hand side). Nothing fancy, but looks to do the job – and I’m hoping that the movement between months will present some live links once I’ve got some posts in more than just the single month!

The second one is the new Atom feed. This is partly a stop gap pending getting an RSS 2.0 feed working properly, but I’ll probably leave it there. This took a little bit of playing around with to get it working, but in the end all that was needed was installing XML/Parser.pm which came in the libxml-parser-perl Debian package. This brought a small selection of other packages with it, but I’ll investigate that later

Tags: Atom, Blosxom, Debian, RSS
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