play *.wmv

[Harry Putnam]

What do we use to play *.wmv files?

[Ralph angenendt]

Harry Putnam wrote:
>  What do we use to play *.wmv files? 
Proprietary codecs.

Ralph

[Harry Putnam]

Ralph Angenendt <ralph+fedora(a)strg-alt-entf.org&gt; 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.

[Harry Putnam]

Harry Putnam <reader(a)newsguy.com&gt; writes:

>  What do we use to play *.wmv files?
>  
Sorry should have specified... *.wmv with video content.

[Féliciano Matias]

Le samedi 04 décembre 2004 à 09:06 -0600, Harry Putnam a écrit :
>  What do we use to play *.wmv files?
>   
mplayer from :
http://rpm.livna.org/ (need http://fedora.us/ repository (FC2)).

+
http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20041107.tar.bz2

btw, you should use http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
for this kind of question.

[Harry Putnam]

Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr&gt; writes:

>  Le samedi 04 décembre 2004 à 09:06 -0600, Harry Putnam a écrit :
> > What do we use to play *.wmv files?
> > 
>
>  mplayer from :
>  http://rpm.livna.org/ (need http://fedora.us/ repository (FC2)).
>
>  +
>  http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20041107.tar.bz2 
Oh thanks, I found the same thing at `ayo' repo before I saw your post.

[Harry Putnam]

Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias(a)free.fr&gt; writes:

>  btw, you should use
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>  for this kind of question. 
But if I'm running test software on F4 that doesn't seem appropriate
either.