viewing WMV

matthew5 · 03-17-2005, 02:26 AM

How do I wiew windows media files on linux? Is there any players, plugins, anything that is capable of?

druuna · 03-17-2005, 02:55 AM

Hi,

From own experience: mplayer. But I do believe that xine also plays wmv files.

You don't mention your distro, but there is a possibility that mplayer/xine is part of your distro. If not:

Mplayer
or
Xine

Hope this helps.

matthew5 · 03-17-2005, 02:58 AM

Yeah I know, because i do not have a choice made for my distro yet unfortunately.

db391 · 03-17-2005, 03:11 AM

To play wmv files you will need to download wmvdmod.dll and copy it to /usr/lib/win32/

druuna · 03-17-2005, 03:23 AM

Hi,

wmvdmod.dll is part of the essential-20050216.tar.bz2 codec package, which is the main codec package for mplayer (an can be used by other media players). The essential part suggest that this package is kinda important

db391 · 03-17-2005, 04:24 AM

wmvdmod.dll et al works in xine too so i'm happy

matthew5 · 03-17-2005, 09:02 PM

Good lord! I am surprised with how many hits i have received. Keep them coming!

itsjustme · 04-08-2005, 03:02 PM

I had this same question, with xine and gxine on my hoary ubuntu box.
I have the wmvdmod.dll in /usr/lib/win32/win32codecs

Code:

root@bsubuntu:/usr/lib/win32 # cd win32codecs
root@bsubuntu:/usr/lib/win32/win32codecs # ls
acelpdec.ax   divx.dll      lhacm.acm     msscds32.ax   vivog723.acm
alf2cd.acm    huffyuv.dll   m3jp2k32.dll  msvidc32.dll  voxmsdec.ax
asusasv2.dll  i263_32.drv   m3jpeg32.dll  mvoiced.vwp   vp31vfw.dll
asusasvd.dll  iccvid.dll    m3jpegdec.ax  nsrt2432.acm  vssh264core.dll
ativcr2.dll   icmw_32.dll   mcdvd_32.dll  pclepim1.dll  vssh264dec.dll
atrac3.acm    imaadp32.acm  mcmjpg32.dll  qdv.dll       vssh264.dll
avimszh.dll   imc32.acm     mpg4c32.dll   qpeg32.dll    vsslight.dll
avizlib.dll   ir32_32.dll   mpg4ds32.ax   rt32dcmp.dll  vsswlt.dll
CLRVIDDC.DLL  ir41_32.dll   msadp32.acm   sp5x_32.dll   wma9dmod.dll
clrviddd.dll  ir50_32.dll   msg711.acm    tm20dec.ax    wmadmod.dll
CtWbJpg.DLL   ivvideo.dll   msgsm32.acm   tsccvid.dll   wmspdmod.dll
divxa32.acm   jp2avi.dll    msh261.drv    tssoft32.acm  wmv8ds32.ax
divx_c32.ax   l3codeca.acm  msms001.vwp   ubv263d+.ax   wmv9dmod.dll
divxc32.dll   l3codecx.ax   msnaudio.acm  ubvmp4d.dll   wmvdmod.dll
divxdec.ax    LCodcCMP.dll  msrle32.dll   vgpix32d.dll  wmvds32.ax

but, when I try to run:
Warning - 30MB video, Awesome B52 model flying!
http://www.mcgirt.net/RC/VIDEOS/Gian...52_flight2.wmv

With xine or gxine, I get:

-xine engine message-
Error loading library: wmvdmod.dll.

Should it actually be up a directory, /usr/lib/win32?

Thanks...

itsjustme · 04-08-2005, 03:17 PM

Yes, yes it should be up a directory.

I copied it up there and now it plays.

Maybe I should move all of those dll's up a notch.

So there.

trebek · 02-03-2007, 03:38 PM

Hey, how's it going? Hope everything's alright.

I remember doing this in Fedora and Kubuntu to play wmv. The thing is, they had tools to download and install almost automatically. I am using slackware now, and the easy part i know it since it's all you've written down over here. But, my question is: where do i get these files from? I've been searching google for 2 hours now and i can't find a website where i can get these files from.

Thanks for the help, as always.