w32codec will do the trick. That or you you can go to the http://www.mplayerhq.hu and find the essential codecs tarball and untar it to /usr/lib/win32 (you may have to make that directory). Also, I used libxine from packman and was able to play some wmvs w/o using those other codecs.
On Wed Jan 24 13:33 , Scott Jones sent: >On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:19, Jan Karjalainen wrote: > >> russbucket wrote: >> > On Wednesday January 24 2007 12:20, Doug McGarrett wrote: >> >> I know the "w" in the file means Windows. Is there a plugin that will >> >> let Linuxers display these files? (Kaffeine comes up and says "no >> >> way.") If there is, how do I find it and install it? These are from >> >> friends, so I don't think they are knowingly diseased. >> > >> > Both GIMP and Krita will open them, Then you can edit them and save them >> > as jpeg, png etc. I've used GIMP for several years to do this. Also I >> > think XNVIEW (Free Download) will also do it. >> > Hope this helps >> > >> >> --doug >> >> You do realize that he was talking about video files? > >.wmv files are video files. .wmf files, however, are graphics files (Windows >Metafile) and are editable in GIMP/Krita, as Russ said. >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
