BenEBoy wrote;
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 10:40 pm, Keith Watson wrote:
BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Isn't quicktime one of the formats xine can handle if you rip out the dlls from windows?
How does one do this? (I've always wondered is codec short
for code/decode as in modem being short for modulator/demodulator?)
It's in the xine readme somewhere. I haven't got it to hand, but if memory serves, it involves just copying the various files to a special
Couldn't find it in xine but the mplayer readme was a good souce of info and the site of actual codec binaries.
directory[tm]. I think it's a bit of a grey area legally (if you're bothered by such things) if taken from your own copy of windows, and it's non-open code so it will 'pollute' linux too (again, if you're bothered by such things).
I'm a martyr to my conscience! :o)
As to what codec is short for (if anything)...
*shrug*
finally prompted me to have a search round the web for definitions of codec, 2 I found are http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci211810,00.html and http://www.dslreports.com/information/kb/CODEC
Keith ____________ Each of us must journey through the dots, beyond the dots, and to the truth, alone. - Russell Hoban