Wmap codec problem

[fatigue]

VLC does not support the audio or video format "wmap". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.


I get this error message when I play .wmv files.

so i install “gstreamer0.10-pitfdll” and other totem gstreamer codecs.

and I can play most of wmv, still some of wmv, i get those message.


Anyone has solution for this?

[Gipsy25]

I am having the same problem ... i am using ubuntu 9.04 I get an error message .. stating that vlc cant play wmv files:

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "wmas". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "MSS2". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

Any work around it ??
Thanks in advance

[fatigue]

anyone please?

[mc4man]

A bit to late here tonight to go into, so just the main info concerning wma and vlc

vlc 0.9.x and 1.x.x can play all wma except mss2 (microsoft screen codec

wma2 is decoded with avcodec so if your version of libavcodecxx supports wma2 so will vlc, any version

wmap,wmal and wmas are all decoded by dmo (win(w)32codecs if vlc is built with --enable-loader

No repo or ppa versions I've seen enable this option so your out of luck unless you build your own vlc

In 0.9.x the loader (dmo) works perfectly
In 1.x.x it's semi broken, but playback of wmap and wmal is possible with some limitations. (( wma3 is possible with no limitations if decoding is switched to avcodec and a wmapro enabled libavcodecxx is installed

small snippets to show using 0.9.9a in hardy

wma2

[00000425] asf demux debug: added new audio stream(codec:0x161,ID:1)
[00000427] avcodec decoder debug: ffmpeg codec (Windows Media Audio 2) started
[00000427] main decoder debug: using decoder module "avcodec"

wma3

[00000425] asf demux debug: added new audio stream(codec:0x162,ID:1)
[00000424] asf stream debug: - codec[0] audio name:"Windows Media Audio 9.1 Professional" description:"384 kbps, 48 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit 2-pass VBR" information_length:2
[00000427] dmo decoder debug: DMO codec for wmap may work with dll=wma9dmod.dll
[00000427] main decoder debug: using decoder module "dmo"

wmal

[00000425] asf demux debug: added new audio stream(codec:0x163,ID:1)
[00000424] asf stream debug: - codec[0] audio name:"Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless" description:"VBR Quality 100, 44 kHz, 2 channel 16 bit 1-pass VBR" information_length:2
[00000427] dmo decoder debug: DMO codec for wmal may work with dll=wma9dmod.dll
[00000427] main decoder debug: using decoder module "dmo"

wmas

[00000424] asf stream debug: - codec[0] audio name:"Windows Media Audio 9 Voice" description:" 16 kbps, 16 kHz, mono" information_length:2
[00000425] asf demux debug: added new audio stream(codec:0xa,ID:1)
[00000427] dmo decoder debug: DMO codec for wmas may work with dll=wmspdmod.dll
[00000427] main decoder debug: using decoder module "dmo"

so choices are to
file bug report on launchpad (to ubuntu vlc packager
request option from a ppa
build your own

use another player
mplayer - all
amarok - all
rhythmbox, similar - wma2, wma3

[horde]

Apologies for asking, but I haven't been able to find the answer yet:

How does one go about compiling VLC with support for these codecs?

[andrew.46]

Hi horde,

How does one go about compiling VLC with support for these codecs?

If you are considering building vlc you might be interested in an easier option and compile MPlayer which, as mc4man has mentioned, supports all of the files mentioned in part though its external codecs. There is a guide for a 32bit MPlayer here:

HowTo: Install the very latest MPlayer under Jaunty Jackalope
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1081070

which I wrote a while back and seems to work well enough. In my own experience I have found vlc a little more complex to build and as mc4man points out its support of some windows codecs is a little flawed.

All the best,

Andrew

[ssri]

There is a ppa with an svn compiled mplayer.

I tried compiling mplayer the other night and playing wmv's that required wmapro didn't work. I found this ppa just a few moments ago and it worked for me. I wish I found this ppa earlier, as it would have saved me a lot of grief.

https://launchpad.net/~rvm/+archive/mplayer

Kubuntu Jaunty x86_64
KDE 4.3.1

[mc4man]

I found this ppa just a few moments ago and it worked for me

That is correct, I believe rvm started appling the wmapro patch in all his mplayer builds in june or thereabouts.

So wma3 decoding is supported (built-in) by his mplayer builds for both i386 and amd_64 ( maybe also the lpia

[andrew.46]

Hi mc4man,

That is correct, I believe rvm started appling the wmapro patch in all his mplayer builds in june or thereabouts.

I may be getting a little impatient but it must be almost time that wmapro was officially unveiled?

Andrew

[mc4man]

I may be getting a little impatient but it must be almost time that wmapro was officially unveiled?

you would think so . I guess they have their reasons.

Must be a real pita for the patch maintainer, while the patch code hasn't changed in quite some time, the files being patched do, thus requiring the patch(es) to be adjusted, usually just line number, and or a subsequent line being different. The libavcodec makefile is prone to that.

I've taken to a bit of a reverse shortcut to co ffmpeg, this way just uses 1 command and if part of the patch fails I'll go on in and manually adjust.

svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/soc/wmapro wmapro && cd wmapro && ./checkout.sh