Windows codecs & MPlayer

GR Gaudreau grgaud at sympatico.ca
Mon Nov 15 03:04:08 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:45 +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:22:32AM -0800, Bob Nielsen said
> > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:55:30AM -0500, GR Gaudreau wrote:
> > > How would one go about getting codecs to play Windows midi and wmv
> > > files? I've read somewhere that mplayer utilizes such codecs, but none
> > > of the repositories have it.
> > 
> > Try this one:
> > 
> > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
> 
> These won't install on warty, you need to use the testing version of the
> packages.

[GR]   I used 'testing' and installed mplayer from there. All I have to
do now is download more codecs. BTW, it works, so thanks to that person
who gave me the tip.






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