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Rhizome21
February 27th, 2005, 07:47 AM
I'm on Ubuntu and it seems that everything is working except for .wmv files. Whenever I try to open a video .wmv file it would not run.. all i get is totem player blank and distorted sounds.

I installed Mplayer, but I'm also having trouble running stuff on it. It opens, but whenever i try to play a video on it it would just make the computer freeze :S. I tried running it in terminal but same problem.

help is much appreciated :D

delltony
February 27th, 2005, 07:57 AM
try downloading the w32codec
sudo apt-get install w32codec should do the trick.
Hope this helps.

Uuranor
February 27th, 2005, 12:37 PM
w32codec from multi-verse is little old...
I use a rpm version of the newest one converted to .deb with alien :)

Sir.Real
July 8th, 2006, 03:56 AM
I'm having the exact same problem, even after installing the win32 codecs (both using automatix, and "sudo apt-get install w32codecs". I am a linux noob and i don't know what else to do.

Any other suggestions???

tsb
July 8th, 2006, 05:15 AM
w32codec from multi-verse is little old...
I use a rpm version of the newest one converted to .deb with alien :)

or just d/l the file from the source's website and copy them in the "/usr/lib/win32" directory from "sudo nautilus" in terminal

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060611.tar.bz2

siimo
July 8th, 2006, 07:55 AM
there is an easier way!

grab ubuntu penguin liberation front (PLF) repos into your sources.list from:
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf

and then leech the w32codecs package from there. Should work with totem player in Ubuntu.