Re: .wmv files?
From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 10/28/05
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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:44:20 -0400 To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On Friday 28 October 2005 01:33, Ben Stringer wrote:
>On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 00:05 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Running FC2 here, with kde3.3.0.
>>
>> What codec & the url to it, do I need to install to play a .wmv file?
>
>I got this going using the mplayer-plugin. It also required grabbing a
>bunch of Windows codecs from the mplayer site.
>
>Here is my recipe (may vary depending on the rpms you already have). You
>will need the livna repositories in your /etc/yum.repos.d
>
> yum install mplayerplug-in mplayer-skins
>
> cd /usr/lib/win32
> wget
> http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar
>.bz2 tar xjvf essential-20050412.tar.bz2
> cd essential-20050412
> mv * ..
needs a cd .. here
> rm essential-20050412.tar.bz2
>
>Then point firefox at a wmv file. This also gives you quicktime, which
> was what I really wanted.
>
>Cheers, Ben
Many thanks Ben, it worked just fine.
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