[ale] media formats under Linux? HELP HELP!!

[Timothy Ball]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:37:40AM -0600, Cade Thacker wrote:
> WMA
> ASF
> MPEG
> RAM
> MOV
> MP3 (is xmms best?)
> WAV (also xmms?)

Currently I play .wma files w/ either mplayer2.exe in wine (it just
works). For asf files and other movies you can use mplayer
(http://mplayer.sourceforge.net/homepage/) works great w/ win32.dll's
infact it can play any format that your .dll's can support.

Ram is supported by www.real.com w/ a free-download-closed source
community serviced player. There is also trplayer a realaudio player for
the blind and runs in command line only.

freeamp/xmms are great for mp3s... they just work.

> Word doc (for viewing only, abiword?)
> PDF (xPDF?, ghostview?)

Konqueror, and kpdf, acroread (from acrobat), xpdf, ghostscript all
support .pdf. Infact if you use a new version of ghostscript for print
filtering all you have to do to print a .pdf is "lpr foo.pdf".

> SWF

Shockwave has a plugin for netscape 4.x that works in both mozilla and
konqueror.

--timball

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