Søndag 16 oktober 2005 01:00, skrev Pascal Bleser:
Donald D Henson wrote: ...
I installed the boxed set on my laptop. When I tried to view a wmv file (windows multimedia video) using xine, I got the error message that says I don't have all the codecs. I'm quite disappointed since some of the media hype talked about "out of the box" multimedia support. But I
Please get informed about what patents, proprietary formats and the likes are before bashing. WMV is a proprietary, non-disclosed format from Microsoft, which means that noone can make a codec for it except Microsoft themselves.
The only way to read those on Linux is to install the "w32codecs-all" package from Packman. Those are the MS Windows codecs and, hence, only work on 32bit Linux (using some trickery but that's hidden from you by MPlayer and Xine).
suppose they may have been talking about Real Player. It's still a bit of a catch, though.
"Out-of-the-box multimedia support" applies to MP3, MPEG*, etc... (and obviously Ogg and Theora) but certainly not to Microsoft-only formats that, by definition, are not available to non-Microsoft systems.
cheers
Right on Pascal! but with using some trickery you can make them (w32codecs) work on a x86_64 install aswell. Iznogood