On Monday 17 December 2001 09:54 am, Larry Sword wrote: > Tobias Marx wrote: > > imho mplayer can play wma files, too (besides divx, mpeg, avi and > > mostly everything you throw at it). you can get rpms for mandrake > > 8.1 here: http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ > > get all the mplayer and the win32-codecs rpm
> > I just received this. > > MPLAYER: THE PROJECT FROM HELL > (Source: LinuxWorld.com) MPlayer is a fine video player, but > you need to work through an amateur-written installation, docs > that exemplify how not to communicate, and boorish developers who > think of themselves as a sort of intellectual jeunesse dor�e. > http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=619032 I just read that article and it's right on target. I've used both the tarballs and GR's PLF rpms (link Tobias posted above). I like to use mplayer on the CL. It does better than anything I've found at playing .avi and .mpg files. The PLF Mandrake rpms are quicker, simpler, and even seem to produce a better mplayer than the tarballs. Tho I did still need to copy 'codecs.conf' to my user .mplayer/ dir. Recently, mplayer-0.60 claims to support QuickTime (.mov) files. Again I've tried both the tarballs and mplayer-0.60-2mdk with the additional .60 win32 dll's from mplayers site. Close but no cigar. Running 'mplayer xxxxxxx.mov' produces a blank (black) screen, but the output in the console indicates it's running normally with no error mesg's. Anybody have mplayer .60 playing .mov's ? Gettin back to the topic, I doubt M$'s EEE .wma files will ever be supported. at least anytime soon, on anthing but Windoze. That is after all, the intent of Embrace Extend Extingui$h. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
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