On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 22:15 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:34 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > Picking a nit for safety. > > > > One should never ever say > > > > rm -rf /anything > > > > If one were to make any of a number of mistakes, such as accidentally > > pressing RETURN or SPACE after any of the /'s, there will terrible > > damage > > done. Instead, cd into the desired containing directory and then rm - > > rf > > name, no leading /. > > > > cd /usr/lib > > rm -rf win32 > > Also may want to check the contents of win32 first. With my > installation of w32codec RPM that's where they all live in the first > place. I don't think they have been released to the public yet - but apparently fluendo has some working gstreamer-plugins for windows media that won't _need_ windows libraries. Won't help mplayer, but would work with totem. http://www.fluendo.com/products.php?product=plugins QuickTime though would still be an issue.
