unless you want to emmulate a mac, change the movs to mpegs, then wine windows media player ;-) lol (hmmmm where's all those old bits and pieces of my last 10 computers.. i should be able to get a workable box outa it for this..) B'lieve me, i know the drill, doing it myself. that and having to learn perl so i can write a script for xchat or ircII to fileserve with, and this cdrom that won't work. it's driving me up the wall. (and i'm lovin' every minute of it, to tell ya the truth)
Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux version of Windows Media Player > On Saturday 18 May 2002 07:03 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > I think XMMS can handle some kinds of streams. RealPlayer is > > available for GNU/Linux. CodeWeavers CrossOver Plugin (which costs > > money) can run Windows Media Player, RealPlayer (the Windows > > version), QuickTime and more. > > I was interested in QT. I d/l'd the Crossover demo. The stand > alone qt5 player freezes my system (even run from a term, no error > mesgs). The plugin works well in Galeon, but not Konqueror or > Mozilla. Only (major) problem is there isn't any way to get full > screen, or at least larger. My .mov's play at about 2" x 3", and that > ain't gonna get it. BTW, the Crossover Windows Media Player also > freezes the system. > > So I'm back to running qt4 from my w98blows drive usin the > 'regular' Codeweavers wine. Works well, Full Scr, but the sound is > garbled, and it has to be re-started to change .mov's. I (Google;) > found a utility for converting .mov's to .mpg's, supposedly even the > newer Sorenson codec ones, but the utility is Mac only. Guess I'm > just SOL for now ;( > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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