totem plug-ins

[Andrew Mathenge]

Sanjay, I'm not a legal expert, but I don't think this is patent/copyright
breach issue. Mplayer has been playing .WMV files for the longest time with
these codecs.

But if anyone in the community knows better, perhaps they should contribute
to this discussion.

Andrew.

On 10/26/07, Sanjay Sodhi <sanjay.sodhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry to detract from the topic, but is that the codecs pack that
> allegedly breaches patent and copyright law?
> I saw some mention of it on the list fairly recently. What exactly is the
> issue, and what does that mean for end-users?
>
> On 26/10/2007, Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Have you tried mplayer?
> >
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html
> >
> > If you don't want to use mplayer, I think you can download the win32
> > codecs for wmv from mplayer and install them.
> > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html#binary_codecs.
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> > On 10/26/07, john mcniven <wattknot at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi again, as I said before, I am new to linux. I am trying to find
> > > plugins for totem so I can play wmv files etc. Any suggestions??? Thanks in
> > > advance, John
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