Subject: Re: Change in the air
From: Andy Firman (andy@firman.us)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 06:03:07 AKST
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 03:46:25AM -0900, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
>
> I am thinking seriously about switching from a dual-boot setup
> (XP-Linux) to straight Linux.
> The only reason I am still hanging on to Windows is the Windows Media
> Player. I like to listen to streaming radio. The stations I listen to
> don't have the option to listen to any other format.
> I have several flavors of Linux: Mandrake 9.0 Powerpack, SUSE 8.1 , 8.2
> , 9.0. and Red Hat 9.0.
> Is there any way to listen to Windows media in any of my distros?
On Debian, there is a package called avifile-player and I
can do all the Windows media stuff.
Here is one for Mandrake:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/cooker/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/avifile-player-0.7.38-7mdk.i586.html
Here is the Debian one:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/avifile-player
$ apt-cache show avifile-player
Package: avifile-player
Priority: extra
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 373
Maintainer: Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: avifile
Version: 1:0.7.38.20030710-1
<SNIP>
Suggests: avifile-mad-plugin, avifile-mjpeg-plugin,
avifile-vorbis-plugin, avifile-win32-plugin, avifile-xvid-plugin
Filename: pool/main/a/avifile/avifile-player_0.7.38.20030710-1_i386.deb
Size: 112138
MD5sum: 21eb01c1c4c6285b46e9853edc67cd0b
Description: Video player for AVI/ASF/WMF files
Player for various AVI, ASF, WFM (with streaming support) files.
Separate local instalation of Windows DLL codecs might be needed
for the optimal usage of this player.
See README.debian for more information.
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