On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 17:36 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. Congratulations on making the transition. To play movie files, > install the w32codecs package on your system, and then applications such > as Totem movie player will be able to play them (most of them anyway). > The package mplayer is also very good for viewing movie files, and often > is required for viewing embedded movie files on the internet (mplayer > does use a lot of system resources, however; so, if your system is weak, > it can cause crashes.) For just viewing movie files that exist on your > hard drive, Totem is good. I've also heard that Kaffeine is good (I > can't really vouch for this, though). Anyway, to get the package > w32codecs installed, add the Debian Multimedia repositories to your > sources.list (this repository also has mplayer, realplayer, acroread, > etc). For details on this, see > http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/86/114/
For MPlayer and WMV9 w32codecs is no longer necessary. One less non-free package... In experimental (and maybe unstable?) Totem provides a very good browser plugin. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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