On Sunday 16 October 2005 03:01 am, michael norman wrote: > > 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). > > Is there any way these codecs can be made to work on 64 bit SUSE 10 ? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sure there is, but it requires using the 32-bit version of the players to get them to work presently. Until there are converted 64-bit codecs available, there is not many alternatives. Lee --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
