[nflug] windows media player files

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

On my system (Gentoo 2005.1) Aviplay is the only program I've been successful at getting wmv 
files to play. I also would like one program to handle all video formats.
Bob

Robert Meyer wrote:
> I use the mplayer plugin and it works fine.  You probably have to install a
> copy of the M$ dll files in /usr/lib/win32.  The mplayer site has information
> on that.  This is the only way to get WMV files to play in any of the video
> players.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
> --- anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a way of playing windows media files in firefox 1.5 in Linux? I
>>really like to be able to play them on cnn watch. I downloaded totem plugin
>>its supposed to play them but when I open the link to watch on cnn it says no
>>windows media player detected. Its not really fair that cnn is not giving you
>>any choice to use a codec format that plays in all media players. You can
>>watch their progams on any type of tv dosent require certain model! Also I
>>have been a big fan of Fedora 4 but I have using Fed and Ubuntu side by side 
>>debating whether to make the switch to Ubuntu and I probably will. Ubuntu
>>really has it down as far as apps and stablity updates work great and they
>>have great forums for help.  I t seems stuff that Ubuntu has Fedora should
>>have for being the bleeding edge. Ubuntu really has it nailed down for a
>>desktop deployment. 
>>
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