Peter Miller <[email protected]> writes: > Sorry about the off-topic post, but a member of my household has > Stockholm Syndrome and chooses to use M$ products. It transpires that > XP doesn't include an MPEG-2 decoder as standard. Yes, I know, broken > by design. > > Can anyone tell me a safe and malware-free URL to download a free > decoder?
http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Ffdshow Not the direct link, because there is ... history in that project, but it should do more or less what you want. As a bonus: all the Windows video stuff should now be much closer to being on par with Linux for ease of use. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
