Can't get WMV file to play in 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04

[V_Naik]

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Dell Inspiron 530. I have some wmv video files from my Windows machine. If I try to open these files usiing any player e.g.
1) VLC Player
2) UM Player
3) SM Player
4) MPlayer Media Player
, it gives only voice. The video comes garbled.

I have tried:
1) Downloaded and applied restricted update
2) Downloaded and applied videolan codecs. It seems medibuntu website is closed.

I must have spent almost 60 hours trying to fix this. I have also tried to do same thing in Ubuntu 13.10 no luck. Please help if possible.

[andrew.46]

Can you give a download link for one of the troublesome videos?

[mc4man]

You could also ck. the mplayer log in smplayer or run mplayer from a terminal
(or identify the vid with mediainfo

If it's a mms2 then you'll not be able to play on 12.04 64 bit with stock 12.04 media players, if not mms2 then the logs or terminal output could prove informative.

[SeijiSensei]

There was a problem with Windows Media files on 64-bit versions of mplayer because the codecs for WM files are 32-bit. I don't know whether that is still true; Andrew might have a better understanding of the problem. All the files I watch use H.264 in the Matroska container.

[V_Naik]

Can you give me more details about Matroska container?

[V_Naik]

Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L1
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile

Downloaded Matroska, does not seem to support WMV....

[andrew.46]

Format : VC-1
Format profile : AP@L1
Codec ID : WVC1
Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile

I would have thought that a modern enough MPlayer could cope with that using ffvc1:

andrew@skamandros~$ mplayer Test_1440x576_WVC1_6Mbps.wmv 
MPlayer SVN-r37150-4.8.2 (C) 2000-2014 MPlayer Team

Playing Test_1440x576_WVC1_6Mbps.wmv.
libavformat version 55.37.100 (internal)
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 1
VIDEO:  [WVC1]  1440x576  24bpp  1000.000 fps  6000.0 kbps (732.4 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Requested video codec family [wmvvc1dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 55.58.103 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffvc1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WVC1)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 2.50:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 1440x576 => 1440x576 Planar YV12 
V:   5.1   3/  3 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 
[VD_FFMPEG] DRI failure.
V:  24.8 497/497 28%  2%  0.0% 0 0 

Exiting... (Quit)

You cannot give a link to your file or upload it somewhere? This would take a lot of the guesswork out...

Downloaded Matroska, does not seem to support WMV....

'Matroska' refers to a media container rather than a codec or a player so it will be of no help to you in this case . Matroska btw is the most brilliantly flexible container available today and there are some great tools available for working with it.

[V_Naik]

This is more detail about clip...

MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.6 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing 2003_Sept_TDK 2010_08_31_22_53_21.wmv.
libavformat version 53.21.1 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.19.0
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WVC1] 720x480 24bpp 1000.000 fps 4000.0 kbps (488.3 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
title: 2003_Sept_TDK
Load subtitles in ./
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 53.35.0 (external)
Mismatching header version 53.32.2
Selected video codec: [ffvc1] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WVC1)
================================================== ========================
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16002->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
================================================== ========================
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 720x480 => 720x480 Planar YV12
[vc1 @ 0x7facdab483c0]concealing 0 DC, 0 AC, 0 MV errors
[vc1 @ 0x7facdab483c0]concealing 0 DC, 0 AC, 0 MV errors
A: 5.1 V: 5.0 A-V: 0.050 ct: 0.000 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 ^[[J^M
[vc1 @ 0x7facdab483c0]concealing 0 DC, 0 AC, 0 MV errors

[andrew.46]

Looks like you have the correct codecs in place to play the file, perhaps a less aged version of MPlayer might get things going? Again, nice to see the file itself....

[V_Naik]

How can I download latest version of mPlayer?