With geexbox you *may* need to use the iso generator and download the "non-free" codecs. This is very easy.
http://geexbox.org/en/generator.html the geexbox iso itself is 8.9M and the extra codecs more or less double it. The generator is another 10.9M. The generator runs on windows or linux and presents a gui where you choose which bits you want to change or add, when you click the bitton it creates a new iso with all the needed bits. At such a small download its certainly worth a flick. I haven't tried version 1.1 but have used many versions up to and including 1.0. The other thing is that there are more than one version of the wmv codecs, and I am not 100% sure that all of them will work under linux. YMMV. Geexbox is not your normal livecd. It is a media player and only a media player. The whole front end is presented as a series of mplayer menus in a framebuffer. There is no X. Another possibility is mepis. This allegedly plays many codecs out of the box, but whether it actually includes the proprietry windows wmv codecs is unknown to me. A larger download than geexbox unless you have it lying around so I would try it second. On Thu, January 24, 2008 12:29 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > http://geexbox.org/en/index.html > > > On 1/23/08, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone know of a live CD or DVD which includes mplayer and in an >> incantation which plays wmv videos? Which distro doesn't matter, as long >> as it works. >> >> Thanks for tips, >> >> Volker >> >> -- >> Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header >> http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. >> > > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > -- Nick Rout
