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Old 16th April 2013
shep shep is offline
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The information you provide about "video" forces the reader to make alot of assumptions.
One assumes that you are using the KDE desktop and Xorg is working. Even if Xorg is working, if you are running FreeBSD you could be using the vesa driver, xf86-video-nv or the propriatary Nvidia. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log will sort that out.

If you are having trouble with a particular media format you will get some information by starting your media player from a terminal using the command line:
Code:
mplayer video.wmv
or
Code:
vlc video.avi
or
Code:
dragon video.mp4
My understanding is that the phonon backend for dragonplayer can use either the gstreamer plugins (which contain the codecs), xine or vlc. If you are using gstreamer you will need to ensure that the appropriate gstreamer package is installed. gstreamer-ugly plugins contain codecs that have licensing issues. For example mp3 is licensed in the U.S and the codec is not routinely distributed in the U.S. Depending on your BSD version you would want to look at the descriptions of the various gstreamer plugins. One gstreamer codec that is key for playing *flv videos is the ffmpeg codec. This is often packaged separately.

Looking at Freshports phonon
It looks like phonon can use xine, vlc or gstreamer backends

Last edited by shep; 16th April 2013 at 01:59 PM. Reason: added gstreamer codecs.
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