Windows codecs & MPlayer

[bpizzuti at optonline.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jared <linux-jared at shaw.ca>
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2004 11:59 pm
Subject: Re: Windows codecs & MPlayer

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Hey. I followed the full instructions given in the HOWTO 
> multimedia on
> the Ubuntu forum and everything works great. XMMS streams audio files,
> mplayer works etc. The only problem is that I cannot get Windows Media
> type files to work. Any thoughts??? Did you get this working?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jared
> 
> UBUNTU ROCKS!!!

I got them to play locally. You have to install totem-xine (which will remove totem-gstreamer) and then they'll play through Totem.

What I HAVEN'T gotten working yet is playing Windows Media over the mmst:// transport protocol, which my current BeyondTV server uses.