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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:59:44 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vp7u30$106a$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAK2H+ecQ7mmzo9WqLz1d7fMwnxfFjKLL0k8G5Y0S3HzyBtbzVw@mail.gmail.com

On 2025-02-20, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I downloaded some really new videos the other day, .mkv ones.  Nothing I
>> had would play them, mplayer or mpv based players.
>
> Convert them using handbrake. Probably saves you a bunch of disk space also

There's no need for that unless for some reason you really do want
re-encode the streams.  All of the popular, maintained players (vlc,
mpv, etc.) can handle the mkv container format.

mplayer has been abandoned for many years.  The replacement is 'mpv'.

--
Grant




  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-20 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-20 18:00 [gentoo-user] media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build Dale
2025-02-20 18:14 ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:23   ` Dale
2025-02-20 18:35     ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 18:38       ` Mark Knecht
2025-02-20 19:06         ` Dale
2025-02-20 21:35           ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-20 18:59   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2025-02-20 23:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 21:42 ` Michael Cook
2025-02-20 22:03   ` Dale
2025-02-20 23:36     ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-21  0:05       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-21  8:06         ` Dale
2025-02-21 14:54           ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-21 15:38             ` Dale
2025-02-21 23:59               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-22 13:35                 ` Dale
2025-02-22 22:42                   ` Dale
2025-02-23  1:34                     ` David M. Fellows
2025-02-23  7:53                       ` Dale
2025-02-23  8:23                         ` Michael
2025-02-23 10:21                           ` Dale
2025-02-23 12:54                             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-23 18:46                             ` Michael

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