I thought that xine supported wmf as well. At least that is what they say at their homepage. http://xine.sourceforge.net/
mandrake has xine packages for the latest version (0.9.7), that can be found at http://rpmfind.net BTW. Is rpmnet slower these days ?? Downloads are not thta smooth anymore lately. Marc On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:31 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 17 December 2001 09:54 am, Larry Sword wrote: > > Tobias Marx wrote: > > > imho mplayer can play wma files, too (besides divx, mpeg, avi and > > > mostly everything you throw at it). you can get rpms for mandrake > > > 8.1 here: http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/plf/ > > > get all the mplayer and the win32-codecs rpm > > > > I just received this. > > > > MPLAYER: THE PROJECT FROM HELL > > (Source: LinuxWorld.com) MPlayer is a fine video player, but > > you need to work through an amateur-written installation, docs > > that exemplify how not to communicate, and boorish developers who > > think of themselves as a sort of intellectual jeunesse dorée. > > http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=619032 > > I just read that article and it's right on target. I've used both > the tarballs and GR's PLF rpms (link Tobias posted above). I like to > use mplayer on the CL. It does better than anything I've found at > playing .avi and .mpg files. The PLF Mandrake rpms are quicker, > simpler, and even seem to produce a better mplayer than the tarballs. > Tho I did still need to copy 'codecs.conf' to my user .mplayer/ dir. > > Recently, mplayer-0.60 claims to support QuickTime (.mov) files. > Again I've tried both the tarballs and mplayer-0.60-2mdk with the > additional .60 win32 dll's from mplayers site. Close but no cigar. > Running 'mplayer xxxxxxx.mov' produces a blank (black) screen, but the > output in the console indicates it's running normally with no error > mesg's. Anybody have mplayer .60 playing .mov's ? > > Gettin back to the topic, I doubt M$'s EEE .wma files will ever be > supported. at least anytime soon, on anthing but Windoze. That is after > all, the intent of Embrace Extend Extingui$h.
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