In most cases, codecs are software pieces that take a video/audio stream, and create the output audio/video out of it. In short, if you want to play a media player stream you need the appropriate software library to decompress it and turn it back into the original video/audio. Gilboa On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 06:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:18 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > mplayer/xine will do the job. > > You'll might need win32 codecs to open certain WMP/Windows only streams. > > Freshrpms have both Xine, mplayer and win32 codecs RPMs. > > > > Gilboa > > A technical question: what are codecs? > --Jerry >
