Ainsi parlait [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > I never quite understood how the whole codec from Windows works with > Linux Concept. Have these codecs been reverse engineered and compiled > and then packaged as RPM's? No, they are real windows dll.
> Or, do I simply make a directory called > win32 under/usr/lib and then drop my windows dll's into it? You don't have to drop every windows dll there, only those relative to audio and video codecs. And it is very improbable you have to complete collection... > I see that > avifile is actually an RPM that is already part of Mandrake but it just > seems to be the avifile player, not the file that other media players > can access. I just don't know, it was working till I did the latest > cooker upgrade. Funny though, this time I used Mandrake install and it > must have installed some extra packages, as now XMMS will play some > video files (ie mpegs) where before it wouldn't. I went to the avifile > homepage as you suggested and read through it but it didn't make a whole > lot of sense to be honest. I will just have to see if it's rectified in > future cooker versions I suppose. If rectified means 'including dll', you are wrong. Those files are definitively not open-source, and won't be included. Get them from avifile or mplayer homepage as tarballs, or from my own mandrake unofficial packages page (http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/pf) as rpm. -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
