Yo,
> > > http://Xtheater.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > There is a program called avifile, which could play WinMediaPlayer clips.
> >
> > avifile doesn't compile too well on my box ... but anyways it needs the
> > WinCodec which is under a different license, which we are not free to
> > distribute.
> >
> > Still, I wish to take a look at Xtheatre. We can point people where to
> > downloads the codecs, really ... (I want to take a look partly because of
> > wondeful hotline DVD movie ripps ;))
>
> But u should put avifiles without codecs and peoples who use any codec from
> windows will be able to do it by putting it on a special directory.
> (why not a utility like drakfont that get codec from windows partition ;))
> it will solve for the moment a lot of problem like :
>
By default you should put the codecs in /usr/lib/win32 I think.
But teh codecs are under a different license, we don't distribute anything that
is non-distributable, and we don't distribute anything that is non-opensouce
(except for netscape, I think ...)
And it's hard to tell whether a user has the codecs installed for a given
machine, then we would need to mount his win partition and then manually copy
it which is very troublesome, why not just give the URL so that he can downlaod
whatever he wants and then setup the codecs? The best I can think of is to
provide a script so that the user only has to run the script to setup the stuff
(untar, copy to /usr/lib/win32 ...)
> how could I play [Here come the codec(like wma,divx;-),3vx,divx2,asf.....)]
> files ?
>
You will need to install the codecs manually. :((
> why not make available a compressor that you will be able to comprees to any
> of these codec ;-)
>
> I really won't see windows back in my machine ! so I want to see only linux
> in it!!!
> and why not linux in all computers in the world and Micro$oft windobe out;-)
>
You probably won't if you have Div X, but then, that would mean that you still
would have to use the binary only codecs.
I still haven't gotten Div X to work on my GNU/Linux box, but then, I don't have
much time and probably jsut lazzy to get it working...
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