Tue, 04 Jul 2006
Codecs
I've recently updated my system to Fedora Core 5 (yes I'm very behind the times) and couldn't play various video formats again. Proprietary codecs suck but I haven't weened myself off them yet. The trick is to install the xine and/or totem-xine packages and download the essential codecs . Extract the archive and and copy the contained DLL's etc into /usr/lib/win32. All those funny/crude joke videos you get from friends in your email will be playable again.