Windows video codecs

Motivation

Any person surfing the web is bound to run into a wide variety of video formats (on news sites, music, etc). Most of these are tailored to users running Windows Media Player on top of Microsoft operating systems. Since this machine is running Totem on top of Linux, these videos won't play without some tweaking.

Setup

Grab the essential codecs and unzip them to /usr/local/lib/codecs. The mplayer site is a great reference for all sorts of video issues and playback, but all I wanted to do was get support in Totem which the unzipping accomplishes.

Reference

The essential codecs