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playing windows media

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totem or kaffeine plyers will not play windows media files alothough i was under the impression they would. what should I look for? I am new to this o/s.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats explains how to get pretty much everything you need.

There are also 3rd party sites such as these that may help.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_Multimedia_Codecs
http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
http://www.getautomatix.com/

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Ubuntu User (anotherubuntuuser) said : 		#2

The Restricted Formats page will help you out.

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