| Art Alexion on 26 Sep 2006 13:57:05 -0000 |
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On Monday 25 September 2006 10:17, Paul L. Snyder wrote: > Quoting "Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu>: > > Quoting Nate Prentice <nateprentice@yahoo.com>: > >> I'm aggravated by the fact that there are many plugins, e.g. Real, WMP, > >> etc. that are missing. Any suggestions? > > > > Try Automatix. > > > > http://www.getautomatix.com/ > > Hm, looks like I gave some old advice. Automatix was deprecated in favor > of EasyBreezy, and EasyBreezy was deprecated in favor of EasyUbuntu. > > http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ If you are using an Ubuntu flavor, I'd suggest first going to the Ubuntu wiki and searching for Source-o-matic. This web page lists and explains most of the available software repositories and allows you to dynamically create a sources.list file after you make your selections. There are some good repositories listed for multimedia. Then, make sure you have installed the w32codecs package sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install w32codecs If you use Kubuntu, the kaffeine player handles everything but the newer WMV codecs pretty well. I haven't launched realplayer for as long as I can remember. Mplayer handles the most of the MS WMV formats that kaffeine can't, but the interface is awful compared to kaffeine and it seems to have more problems with A-V synchronization. My two biggest suggestions, though, are participate in groups such as this one. Most of the success I have had with Linux since 2000 can be attributed to help that I have gotten here, not just by asking questions, but also by reading about issues that others are having and suggestions that they are getting. The other suggestions are to have patience with any problems that you are having. Most worthwhile things I know about computers, I learned from fixing a problem. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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