Automatix

[1richard]

When will automatix be available for Fiesty

[sky]

Re: Automatix

Hi,

Last time I've used automatix, it broken 2 systems after dist-upgrade to next release, why are you not trying to install what you need by the available repos ?

Cheers

[Fintan]

Re: Automatix

HI sky could you point us in the right direction? Because I did this a long time ago (and have forgotten) but have succesfully used automatix2 ever since on edgy.

PLease?
Cheers
F

[sky]

Re: Automatix

Yes of course, it was quite long time ago, when I've dist-upgraded three machines from dapper to edgy, two fallen without kubuntu-desktop and it seems it was due to automatix, maybe (I guess it's sure) now it's solved and safe to use.
Anyway I still prefer to ask people where I'm installing computers to do it in the old way :
- using restrictedformats and other resources to get what they want
- or from feisty, trying to read the file, then get the codec or whatever installed automatically by the system. BTW really great feature.

Cheers

[Fintan]

Re: Automatix

- or from feisty, trying to read the file, then get the codec or whatever installed automatically by the system. BTW really great feature.

Yeah, I forgot about that. It does work.

Thank you again
Cheers
F

[Bongo5HH]

Re: Automatix

I can't get video at www.cnn.com to work for me. It says there's no player installed. video.google.com works no problem though.

Kev

[FyreBrand]

Re: Automatix

Google Video works on Flash so it's not so tricky.

CNN was a pain to figure out. For some reason I couldn't get it working with the Kaffeine plugin. I removed the Kaffeine plugin and installed VLC's mozilla plugin. Then I installed mozplugger. I already had libxine-extracodecs and w32codecs installed. I'm not sure if it was VLC or mozplugger, but the combo worked. It made it so CNN couldn't figure out what version of Media Player was installed (it wants version 9) and asked me if I wanted to play the video anyway. The video and sound worked just for me then.

[Detonate]

Re: Automatix

The easy way to get the cnn video to work in firefox is to install the Greasemonkey extension, then go to http://userscripts.org and search for cnn and you will find some scripts to install that will make cnn videos work. Greasemonkey is a "must have" extension for FF. More and more scripts are being written every day to improve FF's ability to play and access media on the web.

[Bongo5HH]

Re: Automatix

I couldn't get them to work with any of the scripts there. I do have the WIN32 codecs installed.

Kev

[FyreBrand]

Re: Automatix

I couldn't get them to work with any of the scripts there. I do have the WIN32 codecs installed.

Kev

Did you try the mozplugger and vlc plugin combo? It worked for me.