playing videos on linux

swarnimsoni · 09-20-2007, 05:58 AM

i came to know about linux through seminar in my university (DAVV).i am very new to linux. somehow i have installed opensuse 10.2. i am facing problem in playing videos. totem shows a message regarding that it needs some plug ins to play mpg, avi, dat etc media. please tell me about these plugins and where to find them

junme · 09-20-2007, 06:26 AM

you need to install the codecs this link will be helpfull

swarnimsoni · 09-25-2007, 01:43 AM

i have downloaded the win32codecs. i extracted the folder, but i could not find the install or readme file. another thing; the file i downloaded was in .tar.tar format

matrix13 · 09-25-2007, 02:02 AM

You can try installing Mplayer. It supports almost all the formats of video and audio.

.tar is a tarball. this is assemble of various files into one package. This is used for backing up and etc.

You can untar and extract the files within it use this code

Quote:

tar -xvvf win32codecs.tar

see

Quote:

man tar

for further details

Shadoglare · 09-25-2007, 10:30 AM

I'm also fairly new to OpenSUSE 10.2, and found this page to be extremely helpful as far as getting it fully "up and running" with stuff like this:

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/