Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4654 mails)

[JB <yonaton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:59, Jay Smith wrote: 

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> 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.
>
> 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.
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