On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 06:29 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Saturday 23 October 2004 6:13 am, David Robertson wrote:
You should be able to play .wmv files with MPlayer and the w32 codecs installed.
ok, well, it came up in Yast and said it was missing 3 dependencies that were not available. I'm new at this, so go easy on me :) when you are in YAST and it says the dependencies isn't available, where do you get it? is YAST setup wrong ? looking to the wrong server? the dependencies listed were: w32codec-all libmp3lame.so.0 libtheora.so.0
If you look at the bottom of the above page, you'll find links to the necessary dependencies! The w32 codecs aren't listed because, strictly speaking, you don't need them, except for certain files. For those, look at the top of the packman page for the package index, and there you will find all that you need, and some more. Download all of these files (lame, libtheora, Win32-Codecs, MPlayer) into a separate directory, open a terminal and, as root, issue the command rpm -ivh *.rpm /sbin/SuSEconfig If you're not comfortable with doing it that way, use konqueror to download the files and you'll get the option with each one to install using YaST: install the dependencies first, including the w32 codecs, and MPlayer itself last. Have a go at doing it from the command line though - good to learn about rpm and installing files. If you type "man rpm" in a terminal, you'll get lots of information on the program. You'll also find more information in /usr/share/doc/packages/"name_of_package." -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."