On 3/24/06, boricua boricua@despiertapr.com wrote:
how do you get helix to play wmv files
No idea about helix, but I use mplayer (from the rpmforge repository) with the w32codecs (not yum installable for legal reasons) and it works just fine for 99% of the wmv files I deal with.
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On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:51 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 3/24/06, boricua boricua@despiertapr.com wrote:
how do you get helix to play wmv files
No idea about helix, but I use mplayer (from the rpmforge repository) with the w32codecs (not yum installable for legal reasons) and it works just fine for 99% of the wmv files I deal with.
---- http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060309
99% means that you are mostly looking at tired content.
Craig
On 3/24/06, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
No idea about helix, but I use mplayer (from the rpmforge repository) with the w32codecs (not yum installable for legal reasons) and it works just fine for 99% of the wmv files I deal with.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060309
99% means that you are mostly looking at tired content.
Mplayer works fine on the videos at the CA gov site that jonathan is griping about in that blog. It works on all of CNN's videos, too. The only problem I have with it is that it occassionally locks up my sound device, but it appears that "alsactl restore" brings it back. (I noticed that modprobe.conf does an "alsactl store".) [This is on CentOS 4.3 -- I'm still having problems with sound coming and going on CentOS 3.6 on another machine.]
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:37 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 3/24/06, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
No idea about helix, but I use mplayer (from the rpmforge repository) with the w32codecs (not yum installable for legal reasons) and it works just fine for 99% of the wmv files I deal with.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20060309
99% means that you are mostly looking at tired content.
Mplayer works fine on the videos at the CA gov site that jonathan is griping about in that blog. It works on all of CNN's videos, too.
---- I think the point he made was effective - whether technically it is possible, I wouldn't know, just as I wouldn't know how accessible mplayer is for Solaris - which is what he is running. ----
The only problem I have with it is that it occassionally locks up my sound device, but it appears that "alsactl restore" brings it back. (I noticed that modprobe.conf does an "alsactl store".) [This is on CentOS 4.3 -- I'm still having problems with sound coming and going on CentOS 3.6 on another machine.]
---- That of course is another topic, for another list as CentOS doesn't supply mplayer packages.
Craig
On 3/24/06, Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com wrote:
I'm still having problems with sound coming and going on CentOS 3.6 on another machine.
That of course is another topic, for another list as CentOS doesn't supply mplayer packages.
(Un?)Fortunately, the sound coming and going on 3.6 doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether or not I've been running mplayer.
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