Windows or Linux for parents' PC?

[colet at code-energy.com (Cole Tuininga)]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 07:11, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> What WMP options are there for Linux?

The issue isn't so much the media player as finding supported codecs.  I
personally use mplayer, but there's also totem, xine, gstreamer, among
others I'm sure.  

> I'd most likely be installing debian.

Ahh - this I can help with.  I have an extra repository that has a lot
of multimedia and codec debs.  Add the following to your apt sources:

# Unofficial
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main

A couple of the packages you'll probably be interested in:

mplayer
totem (gnome movie player)
xine
gstreamer

Codecs:
search on divx - there's several packages
libavifile
libavcodec1
w32codecs (many windows codecs)

I'm sure there's more, it's worth playing with apt-cache search once you
add the repository.

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Cole Tuininga
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