On Wednesday 13 October 2004 09:09, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > I'm not sure does the suggested techniques work in practise. > All AVI files seems to not work in Linux due that they need > MS Windows dll files to play. (And those dll's are not sold > and given separately.) Well, not all avi's use proprietary formats... most of the ones you download in the wild will probably be XVID or DIVX, both of which have native Linux codecs. For the rest, like wmp9, Mandrake users can just set up a media source for the PLF (Penguin Liberation Front) in the software manager and then when they install mplayer, you'll get the Windows codecs automatically. I haven't had trouble playing an avi file (or quicktime file, or realmedia file, or asf/wmv file) in a couple years, and then mplayer has the -dump-audio option mentioned in its man page. I assume most distributions have an "unofficial" repository of this nature. It's irritating that most commercially available videos use proprietary codecs like this, but at least we can play them. Rob
