[Novalug] More on Resuscitating laptop (fwd)

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Dan Arico wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 17:20, Beartooth wrote:
>>  	I listed some things I did *not* install; here's my
>>
>> friend's reply to one :
>>>> Video & movies. No moving images at all, afaik; I can add
>>>> some.
>>>
>>> It would be nice to be able to see .mpg or .wmv files and other
>>> common movie formats, in the browser.
>>
[...]
> Mplayer. He'll also need mplayer-plugin and the w32 codecs. I 
> think you said you installed Debian. Go here:
>
> http://debian-multimedia.org/

 	I did, indeed; or rather, the current president of VTLUUG 
did for me. It's Debian 4.0.

 	But, errr..., duhhhh..., Whuddm-I lookinfer?? Everything 
I've clicked on there so far, starting with plain mplayer, has 
just eventually brought me around a loop of sites, back to where 
I started. None of them seem to actually download anything.

 	But Synaptic found mplayer itself, plus some dependencies 
--not the plugin nor the codecs; I have in searching for the 
plugin now, and will then search codecs (whatever those are). 
Many thanks, and lish me wuck!

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