VLC/mplayer (Re: The Linux desktop challenge)

["Derek Martin-9" <user=7@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 02:40:03PM -0500, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Dec 2, 2007 12:55 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > Anyone have any suggestions on programs to install or configuration options? 
> 
> * VLC Video Plugin 

FWIW, I love VLC, but I find that mplayer with all the *extra* codecs 
tends to play WMV and other proprietary codecs much more nicely. 
Your distro may or may not have packages for the *extra* codecs. 
Fedora/Livna does not... I had to download from the mplayer home page. 

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