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
next prev 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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