--- Lief Hendrickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't get movie email attachments to play using totem movie player on > Fedora. The attachments are wmv and mpg. I received the attachments in > Evolution email application. totem movie player is the application of > choice when clicking on the attachment name in Evolution. Totem opens to a > blank screen then displays an error message saying it can't read the > file. Any ideas on how to play wmv and mpg files? Thanks.
The usual problem with movie file formats is that each of these .mov, .mpg, .avi, and .wmv are each containers which can hold a wide variety of content. Hence, it is not just a matter of the file type but the content. In the case of the movies, they can be encoded with a variety of codecs (coder-decoder algorithm). For example, there are some codecs which are simply not available for MacOS X so they are unplayable by any software even though other .wmv or .avi files can be played. A similar situation might exist for Linux. All that said, the two open-source programs which work the best for playing odd video formats on the Mac are mplayer and vlc. I know these exist for Linux and suggest you give them a try for your files. It may also be a matter of finding the right codecs for the files you want. Since this is obviously an important issue, I have long wondered why there isn't an easy utility to analyze a video file and determine its codec. I'd like to see such a program for MacOS X but a Linux version would also be welcome. James _____ James D. Keeline http://www.Keeline.com http://www.Keeline.com/articles http://Stratemeyer.org http://www.Keeline.com/TSCollection http://www.ITeachPHP.com -- Free Computer Classes: Linux, PHP, etc. Spring Semester January-June 2006. Two new class topics. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
