[LAU] cool video tutorial by the xiph guys

[Rustom Mody]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder at lavabit.com>wrote:

> Excerpts from Rustom Mody's message of 2010-09-27 09:08:20 +0200:
> > 2010/9/25 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at folkwang-hochschule.de>
> >
> > > by way of lennart's blog, i came across this very instructive video:
> > >
> > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/video.html
> > >
> > > xiph.org's head honcho monty deals with the basics of digital media.
> if
> > > all that signal theory technobabble has always freaked you out, here's
> a way
> > > to get your feet wet without too much discomfort.
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks for this.
> >
> > I am not able to see this (easily) because the arrow (move
> forward/backward)
> > keys dont work in totem. So is there any tool other than totem to see
> webm
> > files and/or tools to convert webm format to something else?
>
> mplayer works fine here (but it seems webm isn't yet associated with
> video, well, tab completion doesn't work for that video file).
>
>
totem and firefox work but no seek
mplayer bails out with message:
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote
control.
Following the config file suggestion in
http://linuxindetails.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/failed-to-open-lirc-support-you-will-not-be-able-to-use-your-remote-control/
the error message goes but not the error

vlc plays sound no video

Surely there must be ways of converting webm to something more standard like
avi?
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