.wmv files?

[Ben Stringer]

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