Re: Win32 codecs was Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience

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Author: Craig White
Date:  
To: cparrish, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Win32 codecs was Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 Upgrade Experience
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:13 -0700, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > I recently purchased a new hard drive and did a clean install of Fedora
> > Core 5 on it and I can relate that I am very impressed and it has worked
> > exceptionally well. Most impressive is the vast amount of asf/wmv files
> > that I couldn't see before on Fedora Core 4 but can now with mplayer &
> > the latest win32 codecs. I used to have to switch over via kvm to my
> > WinXP system to see them.
> >
> >
> Craig how did you get the latest win32 codecs? Is it a rpm package I can
> get with yum or do I need to do something crazy? I just recently got my
> wife a HP that came with XP media center, that I haven't gotten around
> to wiping it off yet (she's very impressed with SLED 10.1) so If I need
> a windows computer to grab it I'll have that till about the end of the
> day. (BTW does any one know if you can use the recovery discs to install
> XP in a vmware guest OS?)

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rpm/axel thimms (rpmforge) (yum repository) for Fedora Core 5

Craig

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