Hi: On 7.3 I installed Xine, and it was a big pain in the butt, having to upgrade ALSA, and deal with a lot of gotchas. When I finally got it running, it didn't have a codec to deal with the sound in a Windows media format. Now I'm on 8.1, and I seem to recall that Xine wasn't included on the 8.1 disks. Thus, I am wondering if I am to give it another try on 8.1, which should theoretically be easier due to the ALSA 0.9x that comes with 8.1, if I stand a good chance of being able to play Windows media without much difficulty? Any other ways to play Windows media on Linux? Thanks for comments. Good day! -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov
On Thursday 14 November 2002 19:34, Chris Carlen wrote: [snip part about xine] Sorry, I can't comment about xine, as I don't use it.
Any other ways to play Windows media on Linux?
There was an entire thread on this just about yesterday... The most
common ways to play WMA/WMV files in Linux are MPlayer w/ win32 codecs
and Windows Media Player w/ Wine or Crossover.
I can't atest to how WMP works in Linux, but the MPlayer solution works
perfectly. Even decodes WMAv7 and WMVv7 (i.e., DivX3) natively. Soon
to decode Sorenson video. [http://www.mplayerhq.hu]
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Karol Pietrzak
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On 7.3 I installed Xine, and it was a big pain in the butt, having to upgrade ALSA, and deal with a lot of gotchas. When I finally got it running, it didn't have a codec to deal with the sound in a Windows media format.
Now I'm on 8.1, and I seem to recall that Xine wasn't included on the 8.1 disks. Thus, I am wondering if I am to give it another try on 8.1, which should theoretically be easier due to the ALSA 0.9x that comes with 8.1, if I stand a good chance of being able to play Windows media without much difficulty?
Any other ways to play Windows media on Linux?
I can read most wmp files with Xine (not those with right management, though). How did you try to install Xine? There are good RPM packages on Skyblade: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/skyblade/ The site seems to be down now, but it's probably temporary. It has all Xine in RPM format (compiled for SuSE) with RPM for all necessary libs and the windows codecs. If you ever need to recompile these packages, the source-RPM are also there. If you need help to rebuild them, just ask here! - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE91K0pv1vqsTa1E4oRAqfiAJ9y/s7zglqP+30zIO9GbJqlqJvlTgCeIbvt b21V6KioSzgBnfc+IJ62knE= =Li3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thibaut Cousin wrote:
I can read most wmp files with Xine (not those with right management, though). How did you try to install Xine? There are good RPM packages on Skyblade:
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/skyblade/
The site seems to be down now, but it's probably temporary. It has all Xine in RPM format (compiled for SuSE) with RPM for all necessary libs and the windows codecs. If you ever need to recompile these packages, the source-RPM are also there. If you need help to rebuild them, just ask here!
It was very tedious. Compiled ALSA 0.9 from source and installed. Compiled Xine from source and installed. -- _____________________ Christopher R. Carlen crobc@earthlink.net Suse 8.1 Linux 2.4.19
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