[Sussex] I've got Flash now I want to watch movie clips

[Pybe]

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.

On 9/12/05, Frances Fleming <fay at uthink.co.uk> wrote: 
> 
> On Fri Sep 9 09:32:12 BST 2005, Pybe wrote:
> 
> > You should just need something capable of playing the videos, mplayer
> should
> > be able to do this for you
> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer,
> > or get hold of the RealPlayer to do it
> > http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer
> > HTH
> > Pybe
> 
> Thanks for replying, Pybe.
> Your posting got stuck on the lug server so only appeared late last
> night, hence why I haven't replied before.
> 
> I've looked at those links, and it will probably take me some time to
> work out how to intall them both correctly on my Debian box, as I've got
> so used to apt-get.
> Flash took ages to get right, and I needed minute instructions to do it
> (which I've written up properly), but at least I've got that.
> 
> But these movie players have codecs and fonts as well as source, so I
> see from the links, which led me to
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html.
> As I mentioned before, I'm completely unused to doing this sort of
> thing, so that instructions which look easy to experienced users are
> confusing to me.
> 
> As I've got other things to concentrate on, I'll have to give them a
> miss for now.
> 
> However, I have saved the links to revisit later. Thanks again.
> 
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