>> on the right side of the page, scroll down to VIDEO OF MUSIKMESSE, >> you will find 4 videos >> (under Linux you can play them with xine or mplayer if you have the >> win32 codecs installed) > >... Do I even need to say it?
no, but you could explain the precise steps you would take to avoid the win32 codecs without spending most of a day on the problem :) for bonus marks, cover all likely eventualities :)) i've spent a considerable time in the last couple of months becoming uncomfortably familiar with the state of computer video, and if someone gave me a video in some win32 codec format, i would probably leave that way at this point in time. the handling and inter-operability of video codecs is absolutely and pathetically miserable. its not a linux problem, or even a microsoft problem. the industry has dropped the ball big time on this, and users are left to pick up the pieces, of which there are many small, sharp and ugly examples. if you've had luck with transcode, or ffmpeg or avifile, believe me, it was just luck. and don't even mention the subtle difference between dvgrab and dvgrab -dv2. the former produces a file that almost nothing can use, the latter can be handled by some applications, though not all (and certainly not many win apps) and on and on it goes. --p
