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May 18, 2005

Playing windows media files in linux

I finally figured one way of getting my Fedora Core 3 machine to play wmv files. I have installed the latest mplayer and mplayer codecs via rpm from http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mplayer/. For some reason my MPlayer 1.0pre7-RPM-3.4.2 crashes when I try to play any wmv files. Anyway, I got Xine to play them for me by editing ~/.xine/config and adding the line 
decoder.external.win32_codecs_path:/usr/lib/codecs
as /usr/lib/codecs is where mplayer is now keeping its codecs.

Posted by Devlin at May 18, 2005 01:38 PM

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