ASF (Advanced Stream Format), fluendo, flumotion -- which do I want ??

[magicus]

William Case wrote:
> Hi; 
> 
> I just received an email attachment that is *.wmv.  When I open it I
> receive the following error:
> 
> "An error occurred
> The playback of this movie requires Advanced Streaming Format (ASF)
> demuxer plugin which is not installed."
> 
> Google says I need fluendo.  Fluendo appears not to be Open Source or at
> least not free, but Fedora repository has a flumotion program that is
> related.  What do I want to install to watch this 10 second movie??
> 

I just looked at a *.wmv file with Xine, MPlayer, and VLC.  It has been
quite a while since I set these up and I am certain that I probably had
to add an installation of codecs to the mix, probably from the Mplayer
site. In any case all 3 seem to play it.  MPlayer DOES however complain
with a popup dialog box complaining about missing a DLL for DVD
playback, it still played the file.

This was with a file on my drive, not one embedded in an email.