Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 11:28 +0200, James Hatridge wrote:
 Hi Joe et al,
 On Saturday 07 July 2007 21:32, joe wrote:
  James Hatridge wrote:
   Hi all,,
  
   I've looked around and can't figure this out. I would like to see videos
   with wmv format. Where can I get the plugin for this?
 
  Maybe I'm missing something here, but I've been watching wmv formatted
  videos in linux for years - mplayer et al.
 
  Perhaps you're seeing a new variant? Could you provide an example of a wmv
  file that won't play for you?
 
 No file ending in .wmv will work with any video on my system. I'm using SuSE 
 10.1 and I just checked the disk does not have mplayer on it. What should I 
 do?

There are howtos on the web explaining this - specific to suse. search
on video/multimedia on suse. 

Suse doesn't ship with copyright-breaking codecs or players, so you have
to get them from third party providers. I use 'smart' for package
management and you just have to enable 'packman' and 'guru' repositories
and replace all your video players with versions from them (unless you
build from source, anyway). Then go out and separately get libdvdcss
from another site.  

Gavin.



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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Clayton

build from source, anyway). Then go out and separately get libdvdcss
from another site.


Why would you do that?  Install MPlayer from the repos (the ones
already mentioned) and then also include the w32codecs from the exact
same repositories (and also mplayerplugin so you can play embedded
video in webpages).  No need to go out separately to get libdvdcss...
which won't really help with playing WMV files.


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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Gavin Chester
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:30 +0200, Clayton wrote:
  build from source, anyway). Then go out and separately get libdvdcss
  from another site.
 
 Why would you do that?  Install MPlayer from the repos (the ones
 already mentioned) and then also include the w32codecs from the exact
 same repositories (and also mplayerplugin so you can play embedded
 video in webpages).  No need to go out separately to get libdvdcss...
 which won't really help with playing WMV files.

Yeh, I am slightly missing the point because I'm talking about encrypted
commercial dvds, not only wmv files :-) In that case on my 10.2 install
my system wouldn't play dvds until I separately installed libdvdcss ...
but then wmv files don't need that treatment, do they? ;-) 

Gavin   

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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Clayton

Yeh, I am slightly missing the point because I'm talking about encrypted
commercial dvds, not only wmv files :-) In that case on my 10.2 install
my system wouldn't play dvds until I separately installed libdvdcss ...
but then wmv files don't need that treatment, do they? ;-)



It all becomes clear :-)  libdcdcss is also a handy extra to install
if you want to play DVDs.

C.
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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Michael Derek Barnett
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 Color me dumb, but where on the 'net can I get this stuff? One reason that 
 I've used SuSE since 1998 is that SuSE always had everything I needed on the 
 set of disks, now the DVD. 
 
 But just yesterday I got my DSL 2000 up and running, so I need to learn how 
 and where to get this stuff. Up to now not being able to see wmv files didn't 
 matter because I could not afford to d/l them. 
 
 BTW, I got FreeNet DSL2000 and its really neet.
 
 Thanks All!
 
 JIM

It's illegal for SuSE to ship the codecs, that's why you have to install
them off the net rather than off your DVD. If you just want support for
.wmv, you can just get the w32codecs for xine or gstreamer. If you want
to play dvd's get libdvdcss which should bring the w32codecs along with it.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread joe

James Hatridge wrote:
 Hi Joe et al,
 On Saturday 07 July 2007 21:32, joe wrote:
 James Hatridge wrote:
 Hi all,,

 I've looked around and can't figure this out. I would like to see videos
 with wmv format. Where can I get the plugin for this?
 Maybe I'm missing something here, but I've been watching wmv formatted
 videos in linux for years - mplayer et al.

 Perhaps you're seeing a new variant? Could you provide an example of a wmv
 file that won't play for you?
 
 No file ending in .wmv will work with any video on my system. I'm using SuSE 
 10.1 and I just checked the disk does not have mplayer on it. What should I 
 do?

I installed all the multimedia goodies with yast - including mplayer,
w32codecs, libdvdcss and more, using the howto found here -

http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories

Joe
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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Michael Skiba
Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 19:49 schrieb Mike:
 And he asked where to get them. Not what SUSE doesn't provide. Jim, they
 can be gotten at packman.links2linux.de. Look in multimedia. Libdvdcss
 is a bit harder, but google is your friend.

libdvdcss2 isn't really hard, you can find them at videolan.org [0] or a 
direct link where you can find the RPMs [1]


[0] http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
[1] 
http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm


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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread joe


Michael Skiba wrote:
 Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 19:49 schrieb Mike:
 And he asked where to get them. Not what SUSE doesn't provide. Jim, they
 can be gotten at packman.links2linux.de. Look in multimedia. Libdvdcss
 is a bit harder, but google is your friend.
 
 libdvdcss2 isn't really hard, you can find them at videolan.org [0] or a 
 direct link where you can find the RPMs [1]
 
 
 [0] http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
 [1] 
 http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.9/rpm/libdvdcss2-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm


Why not just install the libdvdcss stuff via yast - add the vlc repo as
described in the opensuse.org wiki, and you're good to go.

Let the system work for you!

Joe
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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 18:49 +0200, James Hatridge wrote:
 Hi Clayton et al!
 On Sunday 08 July 2007 15:30, Clayton wrote:
   build from source, anyway). Then go out and separately get libdvdcss
   from another site.
 
  Why would you do that?  Install MPlayer from the repos (the ones
  already mentioned) and then also include the w32codecs from the exact
  same repositories (and also mplayerplugin so you can play embedded
  video in webpages).  No need to go out separately to get libdvdcss...
  which won't really help with playing WMV files.
 
 Color me dumb, but where on the 'net can I get this stuff? One reason that 
 I've used SuSE since 1998 is that SuSE always had everything I needed on the 
 set of disks, now the DVD. 

  There is good info on the openSuSE web site about this and other
extra stuff.

 But just yesterday I got my DSL 2000 up and running, so I need to learn how 
 and where to get this stuff. Up to now not being able to see wmv files didn't 
 matter because I could not afford to d/l them. 
 
 BTW, I got FreeNet DSL2000 and its really neet.

  Neet?  It remove  your leg hair?  ;)

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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
On 07/08/2007 joe wrote:
 Why not just install the libdvdcss stuff via yast - add the vlc repo
 as
 described in the opensuse.org wiki, and you're good to go.

 Let the system work for you!

 Joe

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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Anders Johansson
On Sunday 08 July 2007 22:40:23 Mike McMullin wrote:
  BTW, I got FreeNet DSL2000 and its really neet.

   Neet?  It remove  your leg hair?  ;)

They make you shave your legs when you go on the dole??
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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Robert Smits
On Sunday 08 July 2007 09:49, James Hatridge wrote:

 Color me dumb, but where on the 'net can I get this stuff? One reason that
 I've used SuSE since 1998 is that SuSE always had everything I needed on
 the set of disks, now the DVD.

 But just yesterday I got my DSL 2000 up and running, so I need to learn how
 and where to get this stuff. Up to now not being able to see wmv files
 didn't matter because I could not afford to d/l them.

If you google additional yast repositories you get the following url
http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories

Lists most all of them.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: WMV plugin question

2007-07-08 Thread Mike McMullin
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 23:05 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
 On Sunday 08 July 2007 22:40:23 Mike McMullin wrote:
   BTW, I got FreeNet DSL2000 and its really neet.
 
Neet?  It remove  your leg hair?  ;)
 
 They make you shave your legs when you go on the dole??

  Humour on too much work, that should have been veet, or even neat,
either of which on this side of the pond does that.

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