Thanks Dennis. VLC is indeed the program included on the DVD for playing it
under windows, I should have thought to check for one for Linux. Turns out
it appears under Synaptic though I don't know in which repository. So that
part was easy. I can now play it under Linux.
1) It remains that Totem Movie Player can play it for Joe but not for me so
I would still like to find out what codec or plugin I am missing there. I
looked in /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib/codecs/ but got no clues since I do not
know what file[s] to look for. Anyone have any clues?
2) Although VLC now shows in an application menu, it does not list as a
possibility when right clicking on the .ogm files on the DVD. I realize
that file associations based on a file extension is a Windows thing, but it
begs the question of how Linux decides to associate programs suitable for
opening files and how applications get on a context (right-click) menu. Can
anyone point me at something to read (preferably not buying any books I do
not have)?
On 10/14/06, Dennis Kibbe <
dennisk@linuxquestions.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 11:25, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > I have been trying to play the go-open DVD that was available at the
> East
> > Side PLUG meeting last Thursday. I have no problem under XP using the
> > included player for windows. However, I am having little success under
> > Linux (ubuntu 6.06 or SUSE 10.1) and had asked Joe Zagar what luck he
> had.
> >
> > Joseph Zagar wrote:
> >
> > When I insert disk, file manager opens and shows 11(?) files the second
> one
> > "go-open-1X02.ogm" opens in Totem Movie Player and runs a 22 minute
> movie.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > I wrote back:
> >
> > Almost the same except that nothing plays. The second file icon does
> show
> > a picture of the host rather than the opening text image the rest
> show. I
> > have totem (1.4.3-0ubuntu1) and totem-gstreamer (1.4.3-0ubuntu1)
> installed.
> >
> > I did learn that the second one will play with Movie Player (about menu
> > item under help shows it to me Totem 1.4.3) although it does not
> autorun.
> > The others will open but cannot be made to play. The opening screen
> shows
> > up but the controls seem ineffective. They act the same way if I drag
> them
> > to the desktop and try to run them from there. Interestingly, if I use
> the
> > save button in the lower right of Movie Player the saved file shows a
> > different icon and attempting to open the saved file gives the same
> error I
> > get under SUSE 10.1:
> >
> > Cannot open go-open-1x02.ogm
> >
> > The filename "go-open-1x02.ogm" indicates that this file is of type "OGM
> > video". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type "MP3
> > ShoutCast playlist". If you open this file, the file might present a
> > security risk to your system.
> >
> > Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received
> the
> > file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to the
> > correct extension for "MP3 ShoutCast playlist", then open the file
> > normally. Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a specific
> > application for the file.
> >
> > I suspect this is a clue that Movie Player (mine) needs a plugin for
> > shoutcast that I don't have despite the fact that totem-gstreamer claims
> to
> > support it. These are the kinds of things that drive folks away from
> FOSS
> > unfortunately. I think I will bring this to the PLUG Discussion list
> for
> > help.
> >
> > Oh, and one more thing is that if I wait long enough under ubuntu Movie
> > Player pops a small dialog box that says "An error occurred Could
> not
> > decode stream" so again, it looks like some decoder is missing.
> >
> > Anyone got an answer?
>
> The Go-Open TV series is recorded in OGM (Ogg based multimedia files)
> which is
> a Free/Open Source video format. The cross-platform VLC media player can
> be
> downloaded from http://www.videolan.org/ and there is a binary for just
> about
> every version of Linux, BSD, Solaris, BeOS, PocketPC, Mac and Windows.
>
> VLC can play not only OGM files but just about any other format that is
> legally playable with F/OSS software.
>
> Actually, you may only need the proper codec to play the files with your
> present player. Most Linux players look for codecs in /usr/lib/codec. If
> the player finds a the needed codec there then it will be able to play the
> file.
>
> The Go-Open series was broadcasted on South African TV and was funded by
> Mark
> Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame. It's an enjoyable series (and yes, it's in
> English) which explains Open Source software, has interviews with many of
> F/OSS's "Big Guns" and highlights sucessful F/OSS projects in South Africa
> and around the world. The complete series is available for download from
> http://www.go-opensource.org/.
>
> Dennisk
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