Playing Windows media files on 64-bit kubuntu

[Abdullah Ramazanoglu]

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

> 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.

AFAIK w32codecs package just adds vmw9 capability to what is already
provided by libxine-extracodecs. IOW with 64-bit Kubuntu (and
libxine-extracodecs) you can play all the wma and vmw files except those
encoded with vmw9.

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Abdullah Ramazanoglu
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