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Thursday, December 4th 2003, 2:31am

kde application list explanations?

I have SuSE 9.0, KDE 3.1, and am looking for an app to run a .wmv file. SuSE's web site has a list of apps to D/L, but no explanation of what they do. I found even less on KDE's web site. Can anyone give me a URI or two?

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Andy
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Thursday, December 4th 2003, 7:03am

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I have SuSE 9.0, KDE 3.1, and am looking for an app to run a .wmv file. SuSE's web site has a list of apps to D/L, but no explanation of what they do. I found even less on KDE's web site. Can anyone give me a URI or two?

Thx,

Andy

There are two pages in the KDE wiki that have short descriptions:
This is something like a software map:
http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+Applications

This page lists (some of) the differences between KDE 3.1 and 3.2
in case you want to update:
http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+3.2+Applications+Difference

<shameless plug>
If you think that some applications are missing from the application page feel free to add them, it's easy!
</shameless plug>

Regarding your .wmv:
Try mplayer, kmplayer or kplayer (which are frontends for mplayer).
They played almost everything I came across.

Note: If they don't work with your file then SuSE's version is probably missing the proper codec
(there are legal problems, they cannot distribute everything).
You might have to install it yourself.
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/)

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Friday, December 5th 2003, 2:22am

Thanks for the help, cmbofh. I did some digging using the links you provided and found a mplayer RPM for SuSe 9.0 here: http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=128. The mplayer apparently plays the wmv files as well as dvds. This is inspite of SuSE's message here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/xine_dvd.html.

I need some more help regarding the error notice I get using the mplayer, the error is a libfaad.so.0 missing. This RPM must be command line only at this point. I would have just used the other version, but haven't figured out how to do tars yet, then install skins etc.
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Friday, December 5th 2003, 8:15am

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Thanks for the help, cmbofh. I did some digging using the links you provided and found a mplayer RPM for SuSe 9.0 here: http://packman.links2linux.de/?action=128. The mplayer apparently plays the wmv files as well as dvds. This is inspite of SuSE's message here: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/xine_dvd.html.

Well, the legal question exists. Some answer it differently,
some just ignore it. I can at least understand SuSE's position.

BTW: Be warned. There's not just one type of movie file.
Even if they have the same file extension they may use a
different codec. So you may run into the situation where
you can play one file but not the other because you're
missing a certain codec.


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I need some more help regarding the error notice I get using the mplayer, the error is a libfaad.so.0 missing.

Sorry, never heard of that library.
It seems to be from this project: http://faac.sourceforge.net/
But I'm not 100% sure.

You might also search in YaST for that library...maybe it's packaged
with your distro... Try different combinations like "libfaad", "faad" and "faac"

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Friday, December 5th 2003, 2:35pm

Thanks again, cmbofh, I found the librarys, and installed them. They were in that site, I just did not know what they were then. I can now play the files, and the only remaining issue with this whole project is getting the dvd portion of the drive working. More digging...

What I don't understand is that if a file format is available why restrict the use? For instance if MS wants to promote a format, you would think they would at least sell if nothing else the software to view them.
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Friday, December 5th 2003, 6:45pm

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What I don't understand is that if a file format is available why restrict the use? For instance if MS wants to promote a format, you would think they would at least sell if nothing else the software to view them.

As far as I know the codecs are created by third party companies
and their motivations vary.

In the case of DVD playback it's the protection of the content
against unauthorized copying. The deCSS software that
descrambles DVD content is even (said to be) illegal in some
countries, most notably the US.