On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Pete Theisen wrote:
>>
>>> I use t-bird 2.0.0.6 on this MEPIS 7 machine because k-mail wouldn't work.
>>> I can see a .jpg attachment on a message but nothing will readily display
>>> it. Click on it and you get a dialog box offering to open it with some
>>> default or something else "other" but none of them work.
>>>
>>> Can't view attached .mpg or listen to .wav either, don't know about .mpg
>>> because no one ever sends me one. What the???
>>
>> Mail one to yourself.
>
> Hi Eben!
>
> I (blush) don't have one right now. Do you have one you could send me? Off
> list, of course. Say, that might be the trouble right there - they all come
> from yahoo and maybe yahoo isn't supporting attachments?
Enjoy.
http://home.messiah.edu/~barrett/mpg/mpg.html
Actually, a lot of movies on the web are .flv (although their intended
viewer is something Flash based, you can use mplayer) and many of the rest
are .wmv or .avi . There aren't as many .mpg:s as previously, I don't
think.
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