[HLUG] Videos - unable to view.

[David Shorthouse]

OK What is the format of the files.?????? If you cant open them Id expect
that you havent got the correct codec.
Have you tried opening the files in your media player ? if so does it play
or do you get errors?????

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Noel McG [mailto:etwell at hotmail.com]
Sent: 31 July 2005 11:33 AM
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.


Hello,

I did not make plain the problem.  I have not burnt these files to a DVD as
I do not have a suitable writer.  So these files are currently on the
desktop and I would like to play them from there if at all possible.
Clicking on them has no effect, other than to bring up the 'associate with'
routine.

Thanks,

Noel.


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Shorthouse" <kungfu at globalnet.co.uk>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 2:17 PM
Subject: RE: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.


> Try http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/ this has all the codec you
> need to run windows media files & mpg2 files DVDs ect.
> The file you will be interested in is
> http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/w32codec-0.52-1.i386.rpm its
about
> the 5th from the bottom...
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Weber [mailto:b.weber at warwick.ac.uk]
> Sent: 30 July 2005 11:28 AM
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Videos - unable to view.
>
>
> Hi Noel,
>
> Xine or MPlayer (or one of their frontends, kaffeine for example) should
> play
> it.
>
> You might need to install w32codecs from a package repository for your
> distribution. The packman yast repository for SuSE has these packages of
> questionable legality, Not using mandrake I don't know what repository you
> would use but i'm told http://plf.zarb.org/ should have them.
>
> benji
>
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 06:22, Noel McG. wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have recently downloaded from
> > http://www.go-opensource.org/go_open/news/download_go_open/ some MPEG4
> > video files.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a programme or way to view these on my Linux machine
> > running Mandriva 10.2 please.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Noel.
>
>
>
>
>
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