On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 06:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:18 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> mplayer/xine will do the job.
> You'll might need win32 codecs to open certain WMP/Windows only streams.
> Freshrpms have both Xine, mplayer and win32 codecs RPMs.
>
> Gilboa
A technical question: what are codecs?
--Jerry
coders/decoders. In other words, a software library that can understand
a particular (usually compressed or encrypted) format. Without the right
codec, data is inaccessible to your programs.
HTH
Simon Bone