>> I suspect this is a clue that Movie Player (mine) needs a plugin for
>> shoutcast that I don't have despite the fact that totem-gstreamer claims
>> to support it. These are the kinds of things that drive folks away from
>> FOSS unfortunately. I think I will bring this to the PLUG Discussion
>> list for help.
>
> I know, I tried to play some video tutorials from the blender.org site
> in Windows and they just wouldn't play. It turned out that they needed
> divx codes and Windows did not include them. Even though Windows Media
> Player said it could play them. I had no problems playing them under
> Linux. I just clicked and they opened and played.
>
> After installing the codecs they still wouldn't play. Dont even get me
> started on what I had to go through to find the codecs. Ultimately, I
> had to go download a divx player. Did I trust the site that I
> downloaded it from? well I did a little research but you can never be
> absolutely certain . . .
>
> These are the kinds of things that drive folks away from Windows
> unfortunately. ;)
You had to download the player? Weird, I only had to download the
codecs from the divx.com site and install them. Same thing with Xvid,
though I had to find a precompiled binary site for those.
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