On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:37 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 3/24/06, Craig White <craigwhite at 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