On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:36:09 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote > Hi all, > I am pretty new to FC3 and am have a question about video > players. I am currently using Xine and it works ok, but I cant play > wvm videos among other little problems I have with it. I saw that > Mplayer does play wvm videos and I wanna give it a try. Is one > better than the other, or is it just personal pref? I currently > have Firefox using Xine to open video links, how do I go in and make > Mplayer my default video viewer(please try and make it as easy as > possible for a noob...) and is there anything that I lose by > switching to Mplayer? Do I need to get rid of Xine from my computer, > and if so how(again simple please, I am having trouble locating > files and which files are what still..)? Thanks in advance! Charles [snip] If you go here.. http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html And download the 'ALL' file (All codecs which is around 12MB's) and extract it to the /usr/lib/win32 (Or the README say's /usr/local/lib/win32) directory, then Xine will play *.wvm files and many other formats. Once you have done that it will pretty much play them all. The README will explain a little more as to where to put these codec files. I found that once you have done this Xine works very well. (I know these were intended for Mplayer, but they work equally well with Xine) Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
