Distro hopping again: freespire

Claude Jones claude_jones at levitjames.com
Sun Jul 15 22:13:43 UTC 2007


On Sun July 15 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> But the Windows Media stuff is one of my biggest
> problems in Fedora/*buntu,

What's the problem? I've got it working in several different distros, in fact 
I've not found a distro I couldn't get it to work in. I did discover 
recently, a change in the way mplayerplug-in installs itself, on at least two 
occasions - perhaps this just has to do with the way it was packaged. If you 
click on a Windows Media file after following the proper procedure for 
installing the codecs and mplayer and mplayerplug-in (I still recommend the 
outline posted way back by Stanton Finley which continues to work well for F7 
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html) and the file 
doesn't play, try right-clicking on the player window and looking at the 
configuration settings. On at least two occasions recently, I found that the 
video and audio output fields weren't filled in - I've found X11 and Alsa to 
generally work, respectively, but your mileage may vary.  

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA




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