Quote Originally Posted by Debuggern View Post
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

Code:
sudo apt-get install rpm
Next get the 2 mplayer-codec rpm packages depending on architecture.

For x86 version

Code:
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm
Code:
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm
For 64-bit version


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

Code:
sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm
Code:
sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm
For 64-bit version


Code:
sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm
Code:
sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm
Cheers!
Worked fine for me on 10.04 32bit. I needed an extra switch " --force-debian" after rpm in the last 2 commands.

Thanks, Debuggern.