Re: .wmv files?

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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@xxxxxx


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