Tech: Playback VMware Workstation movies with MPlayer

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Tech: Playback VMware Workstation movies with MPlayer

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Monday, February 26, 2007 | 1 Comments

Since Workstation 5.0 VMware introduces capability to record a virtual machine activitity in an AVI video. Unfortunately recording codec is proprietary and playback is impossible with common media players on machines where Workstation is not installed.

Now Philip Langdale, a VMware engineer, reveals the video codec used in Workstation is a customized VNC session record and informs MPlayer developers found a way to reverse it.

So now to play a virtual machine movie on a computer without VMware Workstation you'll just need last version of Mplayer and this codec.

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daveberm Monday, February 26, 2007 6:13:00 PM

I have always just directed users to this site to download the codec. Windows Media Player works fine once you download the decoder.

http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/moviedecoder_v55.html

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