On Friday 28 October 2005 01:33, 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 * .. needs a cd .. here > 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 Many thanks Ben, it worked just fine. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Free OpenDocument reader/writer/converter download: http://www.openoffice.org Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
