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Old 08-15-2004, 11:33 AM   #1
timelord726
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TV teasers on web site - playing WMV, RM, QT


Hello everyone. I'm wondering what I can do to play the trailers to some of my favorite shows online, which are encoded in such formats as Windows Media, RealMedia, and QuickTime. I seem to have trouble playing any of these in Linux? Can anyone recommend any players/codecs/plugins for me?

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Old 08-15-2004, 11:53 AM   #2
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mplayer works great for me. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
 
Old 08-15-2004, 12:18 PM   #3
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I'm running MPlayer. It can't handle any of the three formats I mentioned above. Am I missing something?
 
Old 08-15-2004, 12:25 PM   #4
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You need to download the codecs on their site. Than you extract the loose codecs not the folder (I'm using the all codecs file) to /usr/local/lib/codecs. Now you need to compile mplayer again so these are included.
 
  


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