[Novices] WMV attachments

[Brock Inglehart]

On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 05:33 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> 
> I've never had a terrible amount of succcess with Xine based players.
> 
> SuSe does offer optional 'multimedia packs' that should appear in online
> update,  one should make certain these are installed.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> The bugger is that many of the codecs for video are encumbered and
> therefore cannot be officially redistributed.

So, in summery, would it be the best bet to :

1	Try Kaffeine and if it works, bang I'm done.  If it doesn't then

2	download Mplayer per the instructions at,
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t5859.html. 

But what about this Win32.dll part.  I'm not clear on whether that comes
with the first part or not?

Adam says "On SuSe 10 at least you just add a source to Yast and
installation is
100% automated (just the way basically functionality like this SHOULD
be)." 

Would I be better updating to 10.0 and having the installation part this
automated? 

Brock

Brock
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