Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora(a)strg-alt-entf.org> writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
> What do we use to play *.wmv files?
Proprietary codecs.
Yeah but there are tools to do it:
The mplayer at `ayo' repo for core 3 works on my newly updated F4.
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms
You will need the codec package here:
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html
(The one named `essential'.. first in list)
There may be directions with it I didn't look. I just opened the
package and put it all under /usr/local/win32. Where mplayer seemed
to be looking for it.
It worked fine after that. On at least the 1 *.wmv video I wanted to
see.
Oh, and there were a herd of dependancies. But that all just worked
when I put this in yum.conf:
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/3/i386/freshrpms
Yum pulled down a bunch of other packages including mplayer.
I then installed the codecs, and away she goes.