i give up...

[René]

>>> 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.
> 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

do not give up !
i know, it is much searching nvolved for getting this package nowadays.
get it here:

ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/packages/ubuntu/pool/main/w/w32codecs/