WikiPedia:Media help

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Some Wikipedia articles include sound or video files. The purpose of this page is to explain how to play sound and video files found on Wikipedia. For help making and converting video and audio into the format usable on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Media.

Sound files on Wikipedia generally use the Ogg project's Vorbis sound format, and video files use the Ogg Theora format. Although these are not the most common media formats, they are used in order to avoid possible problems with patented formats, such as MP3 or MPEG.

It is highly recommended that you use a program which is capable of playing both Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora files. The reason is that both files use the same file extension, namely .ogg. Programs which can only play Ogg Vorbis files, such as Winamp, will still attempt to load video (Ogg Theora) files but will fail to play them.

Wikipedia media files can be played on almost all personal computers. However, your computer must have the right software. If your computer does not automatically play these files when you click on them, you can enable it to do so by downloading and installing free software from the Internet. The list below contains programs capable of playing both video (Theora) and audio (Vorbis) files. Look under your operating system and follow a link to download and install the software of your choice.

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Windows

  • Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora codecs for all versions of Microsoft Windows can be found at Illiminable.com/ogg (http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/) (click on "Download Now"). Run the program to install the codecs. After installing these, Windows Media player (as well as several other players) should play any .ogg file properly.
  • VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
  • MPlayer for Windows [1] (http://mplayerhq.hu/) is available as a zip file, and can play .ogg files.


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Macintosh

  • VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
  • Whamb (http://www.whamb.com/)
  • Cog (http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/)
  • Mplayer (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/)
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Unix (Including GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc)

  • VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
  • libtheora [2] (http://www.theora.org/) is required for Ogg Theora support. It comes with a demo video player (player_example).
  • MPlayer [3] (http://mplayerhq.hu/) can play Ogg Theora files using a previously-built libtheora. Note: a prebuilt package (such as an RPM) may not include support for all codecs: consult the MPlayer documentation for instructions on compiling it yourself with appropriate codecs.
  • Totem [4] (http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/) is the default movie player in GNOME. It can also play music.fr:Aide:Écouter des sons ogg

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