[ale] .wmv on linux

[Geoffrey]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 00:21, Tim Watts wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Anyone have luck getting .wmv files to play? I'm using Kaffeine and have
>>followed their FAQ suggestions of getting the latest mplayer codecs for
>>win32 (dowloaded it from their site) and copy them to either:
>>
>>/usr/local/lib/[win32|codecs]
>>/usr/lib/[win32|codecs]
>>
>>but no luck (I've tried all combinations). I always get the error: "No
>>plugin found to handle this resource".
>>
>>I'm not married to Kaffeine. Anything that can play .wmv's (and quicktime
>>would be nice too) will do. (But I don't want to use wine --  too much
>>overhead).
> 
> 
> Mplayer is the app that "just works". Get it at:
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
> 
> There's no reason to even think about anything else.

xine.  I love xine.  I have both mplayer and xine, I love xine...

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey