i give up...

[Mats Holmberg]

Colin Brace wrote:
> On 6/3/06, Mats Holmberg <mats.holmberg at dnainternet.net> wrote:
>
>> Mplayer or VLC play quite many formats. Xine also (although it
>> complaints all the time =)). You won't get everything to work, wmv's you
>> find on the net for example won't work (well ok, maybe 1 out of 20 
>> will).
>
> Disagree here. Once you install the w32codecs deb package, you should
> be able to view most if not all WMVs. The only problems I've
> encountered are with embedded WMVs that require a browser plugin --
> such as The Daily Show archive. I've had mixed results with the
> mplayer and gxine mozilla plugins.
>
> YMMV
>
Could be. The problem is there is no w32codecs package around by 
default. I didn't know there was a package like that, nor where to get 
it. And now, when adding the repositories where w32codecs can be found, 
synaptic complains about authentication.

-Mats