Help with multimedia files needed

[Mark Fraser]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 09:54:45 Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Friday 26 October 2007 17:27:06 Ralph De Witt wrote:
> > Hi all:
> > I am running a up to date Gutsy system. While looking at some multimedia
> > files, I noticed that I have some WMF files that are not opening. I would
> > like to get these to open and then convert them to a standard format. Can
> > anyone tell me what codecs I need to download then what I have to do to
> > convert them to a standard format? TIA
>
> If you really mean WMFs and not WMVs then you're using the wrong program to
> open them. WMFs are graphic files like SVG and can't be opened with mplayer
> etc.
>
> Looking at the one WMF I've got here, I can't even see a preview now which
> was working with 7.04.

Actually looks like Open Office draw will load them.