On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:17:04PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:32:34PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Another site I frequent uses streaming Windows Media.  Am I totally out
> > of luck there?  I know there's this Crossover package that will run WM,
> > but it's definitely non-free.  I haven't run into needing RealPlayer
> > support yet, but I wonder if there's a free clone of that that works
> > under debian-mozilla.  
> 
> no!  i highly reccommend mplayer.  it's a good, free movie player and
> it can play a good number of non free formats such as MS asf.  the folks
> who made it are even kind enough to ship it with a ./debian directory,
> which means that you can:
> 
> $ fakeroot ./debian/rules binary
> 
> and then you'll have a mplayer .deb that you can install with dpkg.  give
> it a shot. (note you might need a couple other packages to do this, namely
> fakeroot).

Even easier:  go to http://marillat.free.fr/ and tell apt about the wide
variety of stuff that Chrisitan has packaged.

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Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                            http://ertius.org/

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