RE: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-06 Thread Franki
: Re: [newbie] Playing videos On Thursday 05 July 2001 22:15, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 WHen you double-click the file, does an app (like RealPlayer for Windows) launch? Or does the file seem to play itself -- in other words, is a player embedded

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-06 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you for your suggestions. I think I will tackle installing and using Wine. Does anyone know of good documentation or instructions for installing and running Wine? This has interested me for some time and now I think this video movie thing will motivate me to get Wine going.

[newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, My brother sent me a video that says vmail.vid.exe. I thought I could play it on Linux with RealPlayer but it does not play it. I have already played it on my Win98 on my laptop. I was wondering if there is a Linux program that would play a video file like this. I have tried xmovie

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcia, Standard comment re: html mail applies... (kmail automatically made my reply in html, even though I default to plain text!). What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a video format. What Windows program did you use to play it?

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Marcia Waller
On Thursday 05 July 2001 21:47, Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcia, Standard comment re: html mail applies... (kmail automatically made my reply in html, even though I default to plain text!). What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 WHen you double-click the file, does an app (like RealPlayer for Windows) launch? Or does the file seem to play itself -- in other words, is a player embedded in the file? Dave On Thursday 05 July 2001 20:10, thus spake Marcia Waller: On

Re: [newbie] Playing videos

2001-07-05 Thread Paul
It was Thu, 5 Jul 2001 21:10:54 -0400 when Marcia Waller wrote: What is the file format of the video? An exe is not a video format. What Windows program did you use to play it? You prolly have to load winders or run the program through WINE. Some webcams have this option to pack a video into