Hello all,

I am trying to watch a video file on a Centos Linux. The file does not open. It says "Totem could not play 'file:///root/Desktop/Linux CBT/Disk 1/video01/video01.wmv'.A Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed." Does anyone know how to install this application and where I can get it? Thank you.

Hi rewards,

I thinks Mplayer is enoug for you to watch that video in centos.!!

http://rainforest9.blogspot.com/2008...-centos-5.html

us this URL to install mplayer in centos

Hello and thank you for your feedback. I installed this successfully but I can only hear the sound but no video. Have I missed something here?

Hi rewards,

I think this scenario is already we discussed in Linuxquestions.org

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...plugin-753761/


I hope this is solved your problem!!!

Hello everyone. This is not being solved yet. I can now hear the sound but no video. when I click gmplayer -ov x11 at the command prompt the mplayer opens I can hear the sound but no video. Here is the output;

[root@localhost codecs]# gmplayer -vo x11
MPlayer SVN-r31628-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
[GUI] Adding video filter: pp

Playing /root/Desktop/LinuxCBT/Disk1/video01/video01.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [MSS2] 800x600 24bpp 1000.000 fps 250.0 kbps (30.5 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
title: Video 1 - Introduction to Linux
author: David Davis
copyright: Train Signal, Inc. 2006
comments:
Opening video filter: [pp]
==========================================================================
Trying to force video codec driver family null...
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmsdmod.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/wmsdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x880252c could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmsdmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wms10dmod.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/wms10dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x880252c could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wms10dmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x3253534D.
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family mpg123...
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 4006->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
No such audio driver 'pulse'
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A: 31.7 (31.7) of 1728.1 (28:48.0) 1.5%

Any help is appriciated. Thank you

Install the w32codecs package.

TobiSGD, the OP may need to have things spelled out more explicitly. You should point out that both the error and the solution are contained in the error message he posted, TWICE.
--- rod.

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You are right, I should have pointed that out.

Thank you all for your feedback. This site http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html has lots of links for downloads and I don't know which one is the right one to download. I did download this first from this site http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ all-20110131.tar.bz2 31-Jan-2011 12:28 25M and it did not work. Then I downloaded this (Linux x86 20071007) essential-20071007.tar and un-tar it to the codecs folder and it did not work either. Can someone tell me what to download from this site http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dloa...#binary_codecs to make this work please?

Why are you running a media player or any other app on the internet as root?

Get on the internet with a user account. Running a browser or internet app as root gives it access to system space.

The all package will allow playing of any format that I can think of.

What did you do with those codecs after you unpacked them? Did you put them in the win32 folder of mplayer? Some versions require you to install the codecs fist and then compile mplayer with them in place.

No the file is a Windows Media Player with .wmv extension called video1.wmv in the hard drive Desktop folder.

Do you have your codecs there?

Mplayer will play just about everything with the right codecs.
Some people like VLC, totem whether it's a front end for Xine, or stand alone it needs codecs too.

Are you using dags for a repository?
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/

Using your package mgr will install apps while taking care of dependencies. Codecs are usually considered a depndency of mplayer-mencoder.

Looks like mplayer is in there.
http://packages.sw.be/
http://packages.sw.be/mplayer/

Hello all,

I found my answer here, http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS. Thank you for your feedback.

[QUOTE=rewards;4360467]Hello all,

I had the same problem and installed VlC media player and now the video plays just fine.
hope this helps