Help with multimedia files needed(Solution Found)

[Ralph De Witt]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 05:03:17 Mark Fraser wrote:
> 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.
Found out that Gimp will open render and convert the files. Seems the original 
problem still exixts. Win32codecs will not open these files anymore. 
OpenOffice Draw can also open these files and save them to its native format. 
Thanks for all the help.


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