Playing WMV files with MPlayer or Xine
 

I have just got a AMD 64 P/C and have downloaded the necessary files for MPlayer and Xine (from the Packman website) - including the win32 lib.

DVDs play fine - so do avi, mpeg and mpg files but wmv files won't play. Is it a problem with 64 AMD systems or just for me? System is Suse 9.2.

Thanks

You may need to get newer codecs from the mplayer website or the xine nightly builds page.

Thanks for that.

The codec file I have downloaded and installed is dated the 16/01/2005 but I'll have a go at downloading the version from the Mplayer site.

Many thanks.

Tried again after downloading the latest set of codecs from the MPlayer site. But again no luck in playing wmv files - although DVDs etc play fine.

I then tried un-installing and then re-installing MPlayer, W32, Xine etc again. As a last resort I wiped my h/d and did a complete re-install of Suse but still no joy.

Is it time to give up or can anyone think of something else to try.

Try uninstalling xine and then installing the packages from the nightly builds site I posted above. Also install the win32 codecs from there, they seem to work ook on my Fedora Core system.

Mplayer says to install the codecs in /usr/local/lib/codecs. But the error message I got when trying to play a WMV was that it could not load the codec from /usr/lib/codecs. I made a link /usr/lib/codecs to /usr/local/lib/codes and I'm able to play WMV files.

Other multimedia apps like xine also look for the codecs in /usr/lib/win32, so it was a good idea for you to create that symlink.

This will help you Play WMA and DVD's
 

First i installed all the " Multimedia Option Packs" the 4 of them
from Online update in yast

the I resolved dependencies trying to install libxine1.1.1.0
by removing
xine-lib
from yast Note: when removing xine-lib it's crucial that you remove the other package
called "kaxtv" or something similar, or else you will get unresolved
dependencies.

this install all the packages you got from http://www.links2linux.de/
or where ever you can get them.

xine will then install without problems.

you have to change DMA settings to ON or something higher.
through yast hardware configuration utility. ( or you will get jumpy DVD playback)
this is what I installed

libdvdcss2 /to unscramble ecrypted DVD's
libdvdread /as the name implies
libxine1
libxine-aa
libxine-dvb
libxine1-xvmc
libXvMC
speex
W32codec-all
xine-ui

plays DVD's fine.


Mplayer requires other packages to be installed, but I prefer xine over mplayer.
so this is my answer.