WMV without sound

[DeMus]

Hi,

I have downloaded a HD movie in WMV format and am trying to play the file. Picture quality is perfect but I have no sound.
M-Player gives a message 0x162: can't find suitable codec.
VLC plays the file without sound.
Totem does nothing, just a black picture.

How to solve the problem? How to get sound?

DeMus

[cagljevic]

Same here. This is vlc debug output:

[00000312] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `wmap'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

Totem-xine debug output:

[wmv3 @ 0x7fa0e7f17330]Extra data: 8 bits left, value: 0


The video will play fine, there is no audio.

ubuntu 8.04 amd64, all ubuntu extras installed...

Lenovo x61, 4GB, 320GB 7200rpm Seagate, ubuntu 8.04 amd64

[bvanaerde]

Same problem here (Ubuntu 8.10 64bit). Not sure if this can be fixed atm...

[xinitrc]

ok...it's a amd64 kernel related issue...spent a few hours downloading a back up copy of Afro Samurai, now I can't hear Samual "mothafu**" Jackson dubling. What's next? Opening a bug thread?

[mc4man]

What's next? Opening a bug thread

Vlc doesn't support wmap or wmal in either 32 or 64 bit

On a 32 bit install you can w32 or win32 codecs and many other players can playback these files or you can convert to something vlc can handle (wma2 or other format

In 64 bit there is no way to play or convert wmap or wmal unless you install a 32bit version of mplayer and the w/win32 codecs (the w64codecs are pretty much worthless, only have 3 codecs included (vs. 120+ for w32

[DeMus]

Vlc doesn't support wmap or wmal in either 32 or 64 bit

On a 32 bit install you can w32 or win32 codecs and many other players can playback these files or you can convert to something vlc can handle (wma2 or other format

In 64 bit there is no way to play or convert wmap or wmal unless you install a 32bit version of mplayer and the w/win32 codecs (the w64codecs are pretty much worthless, only have 3 codecs included (vs. 120+ for w32

So, I am not the only one. Today I downloaded another wmv movie and got the message in the attached picture.
Nice, very nice. Does somebody know if this is been taken care of?

[bvanaerde]

I got exactly the same message here.
No solution found so far...

[markus_V]

omg i just wasted the last 3 hours searching the net trying out different codecs and **** only to find this thread! so it seems it's impossible to watch files with this codec right now is it?

[Debuggern]

To be able to play wmv video files that is using the sound codec 0x162 with mplayer. This has only been tested on x86 Ubuntu version. I can't make any promises if this will work for 64-bit Ubuntu version.
I assume you have mplayer installed and either w32codecs or w64codecs installed depending on your architecture. For more info regarding this, goto http://www.medibuntu.org/ and install necessary packages.


First make sure you have rpm installed

sudo apt-get install rpm

Next get the 2 mplayer-codec rpm packages depending on architecture.

For x86 version

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm

For 64-bit version

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm

Finally, install the audio mplayer rpm packages depending on architecture

For x86 version

sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm

For 64-bit version

sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm

Cheers!

[markus_V]

yeah i just gave that a try but still didnt work im on amd64 and have the w64codecs and mplayer installed as well as pretty much everything else that's been suggested on the net but still no luck