Media players WAS Creative commons

[Kevin Brown]

>> 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.