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 > coders/decoders. In other words, a software library that can understand a particular (usually compressed or encrypted) format. Without the right codec, data is inaccessible to your programs. HTH Simon Bone
