[Novices] WMV attachments

[Andrew Thompson]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 00:24 -0500, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 19:42 -0500, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 16:56 -0500, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> > > Using SUSE 9.2, KDE desktop.
> > > 
> > > Is there a simple plugin for Linux that will allow me to play the
> > > Windows WMV attachments?  Hate to keep having to forward them back to
> > > myself and then reboot to Win. to see them.
> > 
> > Have you tried any of the video viewers under the multimedia tab? That's
> > one of the tabs on the start list, and you should be able to find the
> > players there, if you have them installed.
> > 
> > If you HAVE tried them, which ones have you tried?
> 
> I haven't tried it but I seem to have Kaffeine installed.  According to
> the "handbook", it will play WMV files.  Is anyone using it or do I need
> to import something?
> Brock

You may want to try running Kaffeine, and then opening a WMV file. If
the program is set up properly, it SHOULD play it. If it doesn't, then
you need to get the proper drivers (called "codecs") to handle WMV
files.

The problem I've had with this in the past is, the Xine package that
comes with SuSE seems to be stripped of any video capabilities. (Xine is
the player. Kaffeine's just a "front end" for it) To get video, I've
wound up rebuilding the package from source and adding the codecs
myself, but the suggestion to get MPlayer instead might be a better
option.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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