Playing Windows media files on 64-bit kubuntu

[Thomas Sperre]

Onsdag 13 september 2006 05:36 skreiv Rob Blomquist:
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:59, Thomas Sperre wrote:

>
> In order to play stuff than needs special codecs, you need to run the 32
> bit version of the app. And you can use the program "linux32" to trick the
> 64 bit version to let you install it, then you need to do the same thing
> with all the codecs you need.
>
> Because this was such a hassle, I moved my 64 bit machine back to 32 bit
> Ubuntu, and will be waiting for everything to go 64 bits before I jump back
> on the wagon.
>

Come again?

Let me express myself more clearly: I can play, I can play and it is easy!

I have read statements like yours (cited above) more than a couple of times, 
and as I said I had bitten the bullet and accepted that I would no longer be 
able to play .wma or .wmv files. I acceppted this, and I have performed no 
windows-32-compatibility tweaks to my knowledge. The only package I can find 
installed that might offer this is libxine-extracodecs which is in the 
multiverse repository. (I searched in Adept on w32, win32 and codec as search 
strings).

I cannot at this time guarantee there is not a quality loss, but it looks at 
least as good as with the w32codecs (or was it win32codecs) that played this 
kind of files on my 32 bit (which now by the way has a dead GPU and therefore 
cannot be inspected at the moment for comparisons).

All the software on my 64-bit is from the repositories, I have no custom 
compiles or alien packages.