Codeweaver installation and opera

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> avi ?

AVI??  Those have played natively under linux for years.

> I also have found that format which I can play with xamin or whatever don't
> run properly on some web pages, either.

I'm not sure what you mean.

> I don't have MPlayer. Have to look into it.

I highly recommend it.

> Joel
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:51:08PM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Which formats?  I've yet to find a single one that MPlayer and/or Xine
> > can't handle that M$ can, notably asf & wmv amongst them.
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >
> > > I dunno.
> > > Media player plays some formats which I can't do with linux.
> > > Just trying to expand my world.
> > > Joel
> > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:20:54AM -0400, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > > > Well, I can honestly say I tried for 3 hours on two machines to load
> > > > > codeweaver and use it. Quicktime never worked properly.
> > > > >
> > > > > Media player worked only on one machine but not on avi files.  It needs
> > > > > a decompresser which only runs with IE, the MS page said.
> > > > >
> > > > > On one machine media player refused to install, right at the last step. I
> > > > > was worse off than before I started, since netscape now won't startup
> > > > > realplayer. I guess I'll have to track that down.
> > > >
> > > > Why do you think you need the M$-Media Player?
> >
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