CrunchBang Linux

seraphtrend

Member

From: Tampa, FL

Registered: 2011-12-03

Posts: 39

i must confess...

Hello faithful community which i call home,

I would like to make a confession.
I was recently trying to watch a video online. #! was not loading the video because it was wmv format. (kab.tv)
so i got a little frustrated since i needed to watch the videos for school. I decided that not being able to find a solution to this problem and the importance of these videos that i would have to switch OS.
So i tried Luninux OS instead.

At first i was impressed with everything this OS had to offer. It looked very nice and all seemed to function properly including the fact that when i opened the web browser and pointed it to the site where i had previously failed to watch WMV videos i was met with a flawless procedure where the OS found the plugin by itself and i was watching videos in no time.

but then the honeymoon was quickly over.
I found that i only had one desktop to work with, the keyboard shortcuts i was used to didnt work, and luninux was buggier than an ant pile.

I quickly ran back to my CD ISO image and re installed the latest #! OS on my system. Since  then I have been able to watch those videos by other methods (the website gives you the option to DL the vids to watch from HD)

So finally I would like to say that their aint nothing better out there than #! Linux.
Thanks Corenominal and all the forum admins for the dedication and support. I will be donating to the project the amount that i would have paid at the store for an awesome OS like #!

PS I strongly recommend anybody who uses FOSS software on a usual basis to donate to the project what you would have paid for if you bought the private version.

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Never Forfeit Your Integrity

tmillic

#! CrunchBanger

From: Fayetteville, Arkansas

Registered: 2011-04-25

Posts: 203

Re: i must confess...

You should be able to view wmv videos with the right plug-in.

chiffon_rouge

Member

Registered: 2011-07-24

Posts: 46

Re: i must confess...

Right, this is never strictly a problem on the distro's end. Mplayer2 should handle it just fine per default. As for streaming try to get proprietary win32codecs from the deb-multimedia repository (which is a third party repository, just for your information) and the mplayer plugin.

xe3tec

#! Member

From: Gallifrey

Registered: 2011-05-25

Posts: 61

Website

Re: i must confess...

Thats not a distro problem..more a video or codec prob...

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