Totem wmv support

[cro.smiley]

I'm having problem with playing some *.wmv movie files in Totem 1.2.1
(Movie Player using xine-lib version 1.0.1)

I get the following error:

Video codec 'MS WMV 8 (win32)' is not handled.
You might need to install additional plugins to be able to play some types of movies

But some *.wmv files i can play with no problems.
Codec of those files is Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 (ffmpeg).

What plugins should i download to play MS WMV 8 files?

[Bragador]

You should call Microsoft and ask them to support Linux more. I bet the tech support guy would remember this day forever.

;)

[Bandit]

I'm having problem with playing some *.wmv movie files in Totem 1.2.1
(Movie Player using xine-lib version 1.0.1)

I get the following error:

Video codec 'MS WMV 8 (win32)' is not handled.
You might need to install additional plugins to be able to play some types of movies

But some *.wmv files i can play with no problems.
Codec of those files is Microsoft MPEG-4 v3 (ffmpeg).

What plugins should i download to play MS WMV 8 files?
No WMP 8 codecs? I thought they all worked up to version 9.
Download totem and xine from my website and install them and see if that helps.
I know all mine were working up to version 8. ver9 and above are not supported by Xine.
Cheers,
Joey

[gord]

make sure to install the win32codec's (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats), allthough if they are encoded with DRM then you won't be able to play them.

[cro.smiley]

make sure to install the win32codec's (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats), allthough if they are encoded with DRM then you won't be able to play them.

How can i see if they are encoded with DRM?

[gord]

use windows with windows media player. unfortunatly the DRM technology is not a nice one, maybe you can get windows media player working with wine, but i wouldn't expect so.