Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-11 Thread Amit Aronovitch
I don't think that's got anything to do with the freeness of mplayer.The dll's are not packed in the mplayer package - your'e supposed to download them from mplayer site or whatever yourself (you can actually watch many types of videos with free codecs only, and whichever extra codecs you choose

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday, 6 בMarch 2006 14:49, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: If you use Totem with the GStreamer backend (as opposed to XINE backend), make sure you have the Pitfdll[1] GStreamer component installed. If you use the xine backend, make sure you have the xine win32 dll support decoder plugin

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/8/06, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, 6 בMarch 2006 14:49, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: If you use Totem with the GStreamer backend (as opposed to XINE backend), make sure you have the Pitfdll[1] GStreamer component installed. If you use the xine backend, make sure you

SOLVED (amazingly enough) Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
After reading the following, it took me two minutes to solve the problem and few more minutes to ensure that now I can play movies, which I still have in my E-mail inbox. Given Debian Sarge, which was tainted a bit by previous experiment, in which I unbzip2ped MPlayerCodecs'

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday, 8 בMarch 2006 14:14, Amos Shapira wrote: codec pack and drop it in /var/lib/win32. Now you should have no problem playing everything which is supported on windows. For wmv9 , make sure you have the wmv9dmod.dll file. $ apt-file search wmv9dmod.dll w32codecs:

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/9/06, Oded Arbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was under the impression that debian was all like only completely free software (and we think GPL is borderlined) and such - where does this w32codecs package come from and how does it sit with the debian guidelines, if you'd care to enlighten

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-07 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Re: mplayer deb-packageI think I recall some ugly flamewars between mplayer upstream dev and debian maintainers (in debian mailing lists), so there might be some personal issues in this.I was not able to google them up, but I found this link http://people.debian.org/~mjr/legal/mplayer.html which

Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I found MPlayer's Web site downlaod section at http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html and downloaded from there essential-20050412.tar.bz2. After bunzipping+untarring it to a temporary directory, I invoked totem's add

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-06 Thread aamehl
Quoting Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had the same problem and google said it is a problem with wmv9 dll, which I have installed. I also haven't gotten wmv's to work. Aaron totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I found MPlayer's Web site downlaod section at

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-06 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
If you use Totem with the GStreamer backend (as opposed to XINE backend), make sure you have the Pitfdll[1] GStreamer component installed. [1] http://ronald.bitfreak.net/pitfdll.php Omer Zak wrote: totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I found MPlayer's Web

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I just use mplayer - no problem with wmv The README file in the above .tar.bz2 only explains how to use the plugins in MPlayer, which does not exist in Debian Sarge main (fully Free