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
