Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4654 mails)

[Jay Smith <susehelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

w32codec will do the trick. That or you you can go to the http://www.mplayerhq.hu
and find the essential codecs tarball and untar it to /usr/lib/win32 (you may
have to make that directory). Also, I used libxine from packman and was able to
play some wmvs w/o using those other codecs. 

On Wed Jan 24 13:33 , Scott Jones  sent:

>On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:19, Jan Karjalainen wrote:
>
>> russbucket wrote:
>> > On Wednesday January 24 2007 12:20, Doug McGarrett wrote:
>> >> I know the "w" in the file means Windows.  Is there a plugin that will
>> >> let Linuxers display these files?  (Kaffeine comes up and says "no
>> >> way.") If there is, how do I find it and install it?  These are from
>> >> friends, so I don't think they are knowingly diseased.
>> >
>> > Both GIMP and Krita will open them, Then you can edit them and save them
>> > as jpeg, png etc. I've used GIMP for several years to do this. Also I
>> > think XNVIEW (Free Download) will also do it.
>> > Hope this helps
>> >
>> >> --doug
>>
>> You do realize that he was talking about video files?
>
>.wmv files are video files.  .wmf files, however, are graphics files (Windows 
>Metafile) and are editable in GIMP/Krita, as Russ said.
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