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Old 11-17-2005, 03:56 PM   #1
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Cant play windows media files in linux


I cant play windows media in linux, files like avi.....

can someone help

thx in advance
 
Old 11-17-2005, 04:18 PM   #2
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do you have mplayer installed and the codecs that you need? is the problem just p0rn or all movies? lol
 
Old 11-17-2005, 04:30 PM   #3
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You'll need to add the pacman repo and then install the win32codecs package. See http://www.opensuse.org/Additional_Y...e_Repositories
 
  


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