Hi,
WMV is a type of file, not a type of compression. You need both a WMV player and a CODEC (enCODerdECoder) for the types of compression. One codec for audio and one for video).
Actually, like AVI, it's a container which supports different codecs. You can (theoritaclly speaking) wrap a Quicktime Movie inside a WMV file :)
MPLAYER and VLC (www.videolan.org) both play WMV files, if the have the correct codec is at this time a guess.
Depends which build/version you use. the SVN version of FFMPEG (the backend that both VLC and MPlayer uses) has a full native WMV7/8/9/VC-1 (microsoft's "HD") decoding support, so I guess that the latest mplayer/vlc (from their CVS/SVN trunk) do not require those DLL's to play the files. It might be needed for the latest release of MPlayer though. Thanks, Hetz -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
