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Watching videos the easy way

Greg Lehey Posted by Greg Lehey | Sun, 19 Oct 2014
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The last issue of Heise's Digitale Fotografie included a DVD with some videos on that I thought would be worth watching. OK, found the DVD, tried to put it in the DVD drive in eureka. Wouldn't open. Why not? Nothing mounted, but before I had to power cycle the machine, decided to put it in lagoon instead.

=== root@lagoon (/dev/pts/3) ~ 400 -> mount /cdrom
mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0: Invalid argument

What's wrong there? Tried in dischord, my Microsoft box, and it mounted with no difficulties. And it showed that it was a UDF file system. That might at least explain the problems with lagoon. Fought my way down the directory tree, clicked on my video, and got the message:

This should be give-up.gif.  Is it missing?

It seems that Ashampoo Photo Commander assumes that I want to use it to watch multimedia files, and so it associated itself with all of them, even those it doesn't support. What a crock!

OK, this is a WebM file, so I can watch it with a web browser. Yes, that works. But I don't have any audio connection from dischord, so I couldn't hear anything. Finally copied the file to eureka and watched it there (with mplayer). Isn't multimedia easy?

ACM only downloads articles once. It's possible that this article has changed since being downloaded, but the only way you can find out is by looking at the original article.


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