chứa các mô tả, liên kết, và các ý kiến của hơn tiện ích. Cài đặt, mà tôi nói về trong phần tiếp theo, là một vấn đề của cách nhấp vào một vài nút. Cuối cùng, tiện ích là nền tảng độc lập. Điều đó có nghĩa là nếu bạn chạy Firefox trong Windows và có một yêu thích, bạn cũng có thể sử dụng | Chapter 8 Eee PC at Play 137 Many Eee PC users run a DVD-ripping program on their primary computer and then save the DVD movie to an SD card. This makes it easy to watch movies on the Eee PC without an attached DVD player. If you ve never ripped a DVD before converted a DVD to a file that can be played on a computer using SMPlayer or another media player a number of free programs make the process easy. For more information on the programs and the process visit . The version of MPlayer that comes with the Eee PC does not support format QuickTime videos. This means you won t be able to play videos created for the Apple iPod. You can convert the videos to another format or do a bit of hacking and install an older version of MPlayer that supports videos. Here s a tutorial on installing the older version http wiki. downgradingmplayer. SMPlayer doesn t come with online help so to learn more about the program visit the project Web site at http . Adding additional codecs If you have a video that SMPlayer won t play it s probably because an associated codec isn t present. A codec which stands for coder-decoder or compressor-decompressor is a program or file with instructions for a program to compress or decompress audio and video. Depending on how the video was encoded you may need to install another codec to view it. For example if you save a YouTube video in FLV Flash Video format to your Eee PC SMPlayer plays the video with no audio. However after you install additional codes as I describe in the following section the video plays with sound. A program called Codec Pack is compatible with SMPlayer. It contains a number of different codecs. Here s how to install the Pack 1. Connect to the Internet. 2. Open a Linux console window by pressing Ctrl Alt T. 3. Enter the following sudo usr share mplayer scripts binary_ install. This runs a shell script that installs the codecs. Status messages are displayed
