just sat and watched all of these. great videos, thanks for making them.

 

Thanks for sharing!!!

 

this helped alot {thumpup}

 

Greaet job alot of help

 

wow thanks mate!

 

is there anyway to download these vids?

 

^ like pressing right mouse button and selecting save link as?

 

saved to desktop..thank you very much sir!

 

Cheers thank you! I thought it would only save the link. Thanks for that.

 

I'm a linux user without a copy of windows near by. I tried watching these a few months ago and literally spent an hour trying to get the codecs to work on Linux.

I never got them to work, do you by chance have a non proprietary codec for these videos? The one used is not free and requires a Microsoft OS to view otherwise we're technically breaking the law to view your videos with Linux.

Wondering if you or someone else would be willing to encode them using a free codec or something agreed upon like AVI with mpeg?

 

Save the file to your computer and find an online file converter (google .wmv to .avi converter).

You might just need to install some plug-ins after that and it should work.

 

I don't think you understand the issue. Linux doesn't run windows programs (natively) and the converters are windows programs. The ones for linux would work just fine if I had the windows codecs in the first place. Those converters also face the same legal problems when trying to convert windows codecs. This doesn't need to be a tech support topic. I was just asking if someone with windows who can legally decode these wouldn't mind converting them.

If you still don't understand the legal issue, go check out why DVD playback on Linux is still illegal without commercial software.

 

Mkay.

 

Why not just use VLC to play the video's?

1) sudo apt-get install vlc


Also, if you must use your other third party video player try the following:

2)sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install w32codecs (or w64codecs if you have a 64-BIT system)



-Bink

 

Assuming he's using Debian or Ubuntu, you mean? (The rest of the Linux world uses other package formats.)

I assume he is aware of how to technically make this work; any modern player (totem, mplayer, vlc) can play them, assuming you're willing to go out of your way to install codecs to support them. I suspect he is trying to raise awareness of the patent issues around the format (and there are serious issues around the distribution of those codecs; not with use, per se, but with redistribution).

(I happen to agree with that position, but also think that a forum full of car geeks is probably the wrong place to fight that battle. I'm pretty pragmatic about these things; others are more like Richard Stallman. To each their own. )