.wmv files?
brouwers roland lx
roland at cat.be
Thu Dec 8 12:03:29 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:33 +1000, 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 * ..
> 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
How can I point firefox to this directory /usr/lib/win32?
I hope this is not a stupid question.
thanks
Roland Brouwers
C.A.T. bvba
Antwerp-Belgium
roland at cat.be
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