[gNewSense-users] I'd suggest installing VLC or illiminable codecs

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens]

andrei raevsky wrote:
> I cannot just tell
> them to install an ogg plugin to whatever player they uses (probable 
> Windows Media Player for all I know).

Perhaps they could double-click an executable file you give them.  That 
would install either the illiminable codecs (to make Windows Media 
Player play free codecs) or they could run the VLC installer and install 
VLC (which can play Ogg Vorbis files directly).

Of course, I'd give them only one URL for the thing you would suggest 
they use.

I find VLC to be quite good as a general-purpose media player.  But if 
you know they're already comfortable with WMP, the illiminable codecs 
will be completely invisible to them (it "just works").  I've found the 
latest unstable illiminable codecs to be quite good, but I list the 
stable in case you'd rather recommend that.


VLC (latest stable release)
http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/0.8.6c/win32/vlc-0.8.6c-win32.exe

illiminable codecs (latest stable release)
http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/oggcodecs_0.71.0946.exe

illiminable codecs (current unstable)
http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/oggcodecs_0.73.1936.exe