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i am having Mplayer but it doesn't play files in DAT, MPEG,AVI,WMV....
how can i make it to play?
do i hav to download any codecs?? if so where can i download?? & how do i install that?
Distribution: Gentoo (desktop), Arch linux (laptop)
Posts: 728
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Download mplayer as weel as all of its codecs (I forget its address rightnow but you can google it, it is a famous software).
With full of codecs mplayer can handle any type of media file.
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playing video of DAT MPEG AVI formats
