Søndag 16 oktober 2005 01:00, skrev Pascal Bleser: > 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
Right on Pascal! but with using some trickery you can make them (w32codecs) work on a x86_64 install aswell. Iznogood --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
