Comments on: WMV Codecs For Mplayer / Linux

By: witman

witman — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:37 +0000

Sign up for linuxquestions.org and any site that has a noob section. Remember this pain and be compassionate with any newbies you might need to help.

By: witman

witman — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:50:00 +0000

I feel your pain brother. My first setup couldn’t even connect to the internet so I had to keep rebooting into windows for support like this forum. 12 years later I still feel like a noob when I can’t get mythtv to play a wmv but I make stupid money at an all Linux shop. The irony is that we specialize in video conversion and streaming.

So here’s the thing. Why play wmv files when you can convert them using vlc? I can play them with mplayer but myth now has its own internal player so it’s proving difficult.

By: witman

witman — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:37:19 +0000

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32
sudo cp -R /codecfoldername/* /usr/lib/win32/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/win32 /usr/lib/codecs

If you want to put a copy of each into the /usr/local/lib directory, just repeat the sudo ln -sf for each additional location. This will create a symbolic link to the original directory (shortcut in Windows) and allow you to keep only one centralized version of the codecs.

The trick is that if you see a command, type sudo before it so it is performed as root. The neat thing is that your terminal will remember your userID after the first sudo so for security’s sake, close your terminal when complete.

By: witman

witman — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:31:57 +0000

Just do sudo su -

Then you do all of your root stuff
exit

IMHO, if you really want to learn Linux, learn Redhat. Redhat Enterprise is used all over the industry and the Fedora version is very close to that.

By: ivan(mexican-not russian)

ivan(mexican-not russian) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:44:44 +0000

hola i’m a nooby,i’ve been another one zombified slave of windows,so i don’t know anything of linux at all,so, could somebody post some links to download some tutorials
(sorry for my poor english)
gracias amigos

By: userlevel6

userlevel6 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:50:17 +0000

…and the true losers are people who can’t spell, IMHO.

By: whoyadaddy

whoyadaddy — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:25:12 +0000

What a bunch of phrekin whiners!! It’s this stupid mentality of having everything done for you that led to DumbusBama having govmt do everything for you. Go whine to him and give up without learning anything. The linux community does not need you loosers.

By: mister

mister — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:33:50 +0000

who the hell you are think you are ?
im one of the first linux users ever
and to make linux to a secret closed communaty is not in the sence of it self
linux is for everyone and not to create a arogant elite of computer freaks
linux is just a interesting alternative concept based on exchange of informations “how to do ”
thats why it is free of charge . people like you should try to relax a bit and remember how they
get started with linux or informatics in general .
linux dont need mean or closefisted users who never share knowlegde

go out to the street and be sozial …