opening .wmv (Windows Media Video) files

[Greg Booth]

On 8/27/07, Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I received an email with a link to a .wmv file.
> >
> > I can't open/run it.
>
> Go find mplayer and the restricted codecs -- get it all from the mplayer
> website. Install it (compile your own, or get a binary; I compiled it
> but that was ages ago) and then you can play just about *anything*!
>
> Once that's done, associate wmv files with mplayer (in the KDE control
> panel) and then you should be good to go.
>
> /d
>

Or just add Mediubuntu repositories to your sources.list then install
w32codecs ! ( Or can you get this from multiverse repositories from
Ubuntu.com I forget now )

Greg