-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Donald D Henson wrote: ... > I installed the boxed set on my laptop. When I tried to view a wmv file > (windows multimedia video) using xine, I got the error message that says > I don't have all the codecs. I'm quite disappointed since some of the > media hype talked about "out of the box" multimedia support. But I
Please get informed about what patents, proprietary formats and the likes are before bashing. WMV is a proprietary, non-disclosed format from Microsoft, which means that noone can make a codec for it except Microsoft themselves. The only way to read those on Linux is to install the "w32codecs-all" package from Packman. Those are the MS Windows codecs and, hence, only work on 32bit Linux (using some trickery but that's hidden from you by MPlayer and Xine). > suppose they may have been talking about Real Player. It's still a bit > of a catch, though. "Out-of-the-box multimedia support" applies to MP3, MPEG*, etc... (and obviously Ogg and Theora) but certainly not to Microsoft-only formats that, by definition, are not available to non-Microsoft systems. cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDUYnyr3NMWliFcXcRAmFeAJ9QQnvIKQjqdGtqwaRf3j4i4l2nsgCgtF9b YorZkYR2IMrz4INw22C+BAI= =tvdN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
