try searching apt for the items mplayer & its plugin and w32codecs etc I have not used debian for desktop but ubuntu which is based on debian has these items in its universe.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frances Fleming</b> <<a href="mailto:fay@uthink.co.uk">fay@uthink.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Fri Sep 9 09:32:12 BST 2005, Pybe wrote:<br><br>> You should just need something capable of playing the videos, mplayer
<br>should<br>> be able to do this for you<br><a href="http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer">http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer</a>,<br>> or get hold of the RealPlayer to do it<br>> <a href="http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer">
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer</a><br>> HTH<br>> Pybe<br><br>Thanks for replying, Pybe.<br>Your posting got stuck on the lug server so only appeared late last<br>night, hence why I haven't replied before.
<br><br>I've looked at those links, and it will probably take me some time to<br>work out how to intall them both correctly on my Debian box, as I've got<br>so used to apt-get.<br>Flash took ages to get right, and I needed minute instructions to do it
<br>(which I've written up properly), but at least I've got that.<br><br>But these movie players have codecs and fonts as well as source, so I<br>see from the links, which led me to<br><a href="http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html">
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html</a>.<br>As I mentioned before, I'm completely unused to doing this sort of<br>thing, so that instructions which look easy to experienced users are<br>confusing to me.<br>
<br>As I've got other things to concentrate on, I'll have to give them a<br>miss for now.<br><br>However, I have saved the links to revisit later. Thanks again.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Sussex mailing list
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