Update on Ubuntu and my Church Laptop

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

OK, no.  You need to look on the Ubuntu forums about the media or
multimedia support or wmv support or MS codec support.  You will likely
need to make an addition to your /etc/apt/sources.list, which is a text
file that holds the list of repositories that your PC uses.  You will
have to make an entry for some location that has the codecs you need.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+forum+wmv+support&start=0&ie=utf-8
&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Yields:
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/12/essential-house-keeping-in-ubuntu.
html
Read the comments also.




>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Moss 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:45 AM
>To: Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
>Cc: kclug
>Subject: RE: Update on Ubuntu and my Church Laptop
>
>I ran the easyubuntu script.  However, I still can't play WMV 
>and ASF files.  Should I try running the script again?
>
>>
>> You should be able to get the windows codec package and be able to 
>> play those with either mplayer or VLC (Videolan.org).  For 
>> Debian-based systems I've used a foreign repo called marillat or 
>> something close to that, but since you are using Ubuntu, looks like 
>> you should be able to get this via universe or multiverse 
>repository.  
>> Look into that easy Ubuntu install link that was sent in the 
>original Ubuntu thread.
>>
>> I tried yesterday to download the DVD.iso of Kubuntu and I got a 550 
>> error, unable to change directory.  I'm getting it now from the 
>> European mirror.
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: On Behalf Of Jon Moss
>>>Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:10 AM
>>
>>><Snip>
>>>
>>>I've been able to play DVDs, CDs, PowerPoints (via Impress of
>>>course) and some web media (but not WMVs or ASFs).  Since we don't 
>>>have Internet access at the church, I'm not too worried about the 
>>>latter.
>>>
>>>The DVD playback is a little choppy so I need to investigate 
>how much 
>>>RAM was "donated" with the laptop.  And that may not make a 
>difference 
>>>. . .
>>>may just be the age of the laptop or the norm for Totem Movie player.
>>>
>>><Snip>
>>
>>>Later,
>>>
>>>Jon Moss
>>>
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>
>--
>Thanks very much,
>
>Jon Moss
>jon.moss at cnonline.net
>
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