[Discuss] flv video playback?

[David Bronaugh]

Corey Burger wrote:
> n 5/24/07, Lloyd Budd <foolswisdom at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone have any luck either playing back flv (flash video) or
>> converting it to something else? All the players I have tried seem not
>> to be able to jump to different times in the videos. The converting to
>> mpg using ffmpeg seems to work (though reports a shorter video
>> length), but same result trying to jump around.
>
> You are trying to view the Dell video no? In which case, with Feisty
> it should just play, with all the various gstreamer codecs installed
> (but not w32codecs or binary stuff).  I suspect that flv is merely a
> container format.
It is.

See http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html -- mplayer recently added 
support for the underlying format (dunno about the wrapper)

Also, you may need to force indexing... mplayer of course will do this.

David