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Master of Reality

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« on: 26 November 2002, 08:48 »
whenever i try to watch a movie in linux in mpeg format it just displays a green screen where the movie should be playing. I want to use mplayer but this happens in every movie player without any error messages. Got any ideas as to what may cause this?
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« Reply #1 on: 26 November 2002, 17:23 »
errr, are you sure that you have all the codecs installed, includeding the win32 ones
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« Reply #2 on: 26 November 2002, 20:27 »
yes. I installed them according to the mplayer website and void mains instructions in another thread.

[ November 26, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

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