{"id":687,"date":"2005-06-25T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=687"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"updated-debian-mplayer-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/updated-debian-mplayer-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated debian mplayer how-to"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I have a “claim to fame” at all in the linux world it’s for my Debian Mplayer How-To<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It all started when I was running Debian Woody in early 2003. I spent an entire morning pulling my hair out trying to get mplayer compiled from scratch with the newly released quicktime codecs. There were no good how-tos. Finally I asked for help from some people I knew in a channel on freenode. A friend there walked me through the steps of where to put the codecs, and even how to make it into a .deb so installing and uninstalling it would be a breeze.<\/p>\n

I then thought about how helpful the whole IRC log would be to people in my similar situation. I saved the log of his teaching, rewrote the entire thing, cleaned it up, made things clear, and voila! The first Debian Mplayer How-To was born.<\/p>\n

After a few months it started picking up traffic. I did an update in March of 2003. It got more traffic. I updated in September of 2003, and that’s when a friend pointed out that it was the first hit on google for “debian mplayer”<\/p>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n

Then I switched to Gentoo for my primary workstation and let the How-To collect dust for all of 2004, and most of this year. With the exception of the live.com codecs I had up there (conflicted with newer g++ versions), it all worked fine. I have still been getting at least one email a month about it, and it’s not uncommon for new people I meet on IRC to ask me if I am “the one who wrote that debian mplayer how-to”<\/p>\n

I felt bad about letting it collect dust, but I didn’t have a decent debian box or a whole lot of time for testing of the rewrite.<\/p>\n

So last weekend I dropped Gentoo. Etch is now on my computer, and Thursday I opened up my How-To and installed Debian. But I grabbed the newest stable source for Mplayer (v1.0pre7) and newer live.com codecs. I ran into some trouble, which I eventually pinned down to not having vorbis-tools in the “apt-get install” line, oops. But other than that, it works.<\/p>\n

Today I updated the site to reflect the changes I made in my own installed. I’m still using the older divx, realplayer, win32 and quicktime codecs, but I haven’t had any problems with these.<\/p>\n

Yay! Finally updated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I have a “claim to fame” at all in the linux world it’s for my Debian Mplayer How-To. It all started when I was running Debian Woody in early 2003. I spent an entire morning pulling my hair out trying to get mplayer compiled from scratch with the newly released quicktime codecs. There were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}