Thanks for your replies... I have installed "ffmpeg" plugin. But still they are not playing. Anyway, in linux mint 6, rmvb files could be played out-of-the-box with mplayer. I am trying to find out which plugin it uses. If I can't, then I would go for real player itself.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Omi Azad <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Shahriar. I assume you downloaded the videos looking at > their small size. Real format is small and good, but I don't know why > they don't make their decoder's source open. They are running an open > source project but they are not opening the decoder. > > I knew about their spyware issue, but I'm using Real player on Linux > without any issues. > -- > Omi Azad <http://omi.net.bd> *|* +8803894550305 *|* Contributor of > Ekushey <http://ekushey.org> > > > Shahriar Tariq wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Hafiz Imtiaz<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> /quote >>> I do not, by principle, install any software from real. They used to put >>> spyware "features" in their windows versions, so I use realalternative. >>> >>> /quote >>> >>> >>> >> True.. but that's long time back (or is 2005 too far back?)..... I don't >> know once a product was bad that does not necessarily means it's always >> going to be bad... but hey... that just my thought.. after all you are the >> one who is going to take risks.... >> >> >> If I were you, I would have converted all my non free formats to ogg (that's >> what I am doing currently converting mp3 to ogg) >> >> > -- > Ubuntu Bangladesh mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd > -- Hafiz Imtiaz 0306005 EEE,BUET PH: 01915698207 www.hafizimtiaz.co.nr -- Ubuntu Bangladesh mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
