On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:59, Jay Smith wrote: <top-posting fixed>
> 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. > > 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
