[CLUE-Tech] wmv files w/ debian

[Mike Miller]

I've for WMV playback using Mplayer on RH8. (yeah, it's not Debian, but
they're both linux.)

I'm using 0.90pre10-3.2

Since it's a command line application, and many pages are set up to
prevent downloading the video file before playing it, I've hear you can
use wget to force download of the file first, but I haven't had the
chance to work with that yet (I haven't got audio working yet on my
laptop -- Gatewal solo 9100, so getting Mplayer running was neat, but
not yet useful)

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 17:16, Ski Dawg wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 04:48, Randy Arabie wrote:
> > Can I play wvm files on Debian (woody)?  That's a proprietary windows 
> > media player format.
> > 
> > I've got mplayer from stable, and it won't.
> > 
> > And I've got realplayer8 installed and it won't.
> > 
> > I thought one or the other could, but perhaps that was later versions 
> > than are available in debian stable.
> 
> There was a short article in eWeek magazine a couple of weeks ago about
> this. It talked about the FFmpeg codec for windows media audio and video
> files. I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know how well it works.
> 
> You can look at the article here:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,755159,00.asp
> 
> The codec home page is here:
> http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/
> 
> HTH
> -- 
> Doug
> 
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