On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 23:52 -0700, linux-yug wrote: > I am running Dapper... > > Linux-yug > > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 23:01 -0700, Tim Garton wrote: > > you probably need a package called something like "win32codecs" (or > > "win64codecs"). What distro are you using? If ubuntu, check out: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu > > > > -Tim > > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM, linux-yug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What do I need to get wmv files to play????? > > > > > > I downloaded VLC... > > > > > > That gives me audio...No video... > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Linux-yug..
It depends upon what player you're using. Totem uses the gstreamer framework, so to play it with Totem you would need (most likely) the gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg plugin. You should check which gstreamer packages you have installed. If you're using GNOME, most likely you'll want, at least: gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio (Only if you use PulseAudio) Others should already be installed (and probably some of those are already installed). If you want to use mplayer or VLC, then I believe you need one of the codecs packages, as Tim said. Those players don't use gstreamer. Debian has pretty amazing multimedia compatibility now. The only "unofficial" package I installed from the debian-multimedia repository was flashplayer-mozilla, for flash video. Even without the codecs package, totem has played everything I've thrown at it, so far -- wmv, mp4, mov, avi, and so on. Haven't done the silverlight/moonlight thing yet -- there doesn't seem to be much compelling content that requires it. -- Michael M. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
