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KMPlayer win32 codecs Mandriva 2007

Hi
i am am having trouble playing wmv files through KMPlayer. i downloaded the codec pack from Mplayer site and unpacked it to /usr/lib/win32 but to no avail KMPlayer still wont play the wmv files. Please help me out here

Which codec package you install?
Does the video play anything?

Brian

i downloaded the essentials codec pack from Mplayer's website. And no the video doesnt pplay anything

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waqas Ahsan

The win32 codec pack from PLF non-free should work okay

http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.f...007.0.i586.rpm

thanks aerogate.
what package should i be looking for

Code:

urpmi win32-codecs

returns no packages

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waqas Ahsan

thanks aerogate.
what package should i be looking for

Code:

urpmi win32-codecs

returns no packages

win32-codecs-1.8-1plf2007.0

This package contains Win32 codec binaries, required for the decompression of video formats that have no open source alternative. This is in PLF for it's non-free license.

-Try a new plf nonfree source.

Hmm, package above was from plf sources I used four days ago when I installed. Went to use them today and they were down. Tried four other sources for plf and all down at this moment, not too impressive.

well i am having trouble with the plf nonfree source too

Code:

retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "plf-nonfree"...

    ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandriva/non-free/2007.0/i586/hdlist.cz



...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404

retrieval of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed

no hdlist file found for medium "plf-nonfree"

examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf-nonfree.cz]

problem reading synthesis file of medium "plf-nonfree"

found 0 headers in cache

removing 0 obsolete headers in cache

wrote config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg]

unable to update medium "plf-nonfree"

www.easyurpmi.zarb.org doesnt list plf repositories(or maybe its just that i cant understand it) so i searched for repositories on http://www.linuxfornewbies.org/addmedia/
but the repositories listed there were giving the above mentioned problem :(.

well i searched google for the package u named and as of now am downloading it from ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/plf/mand...007.0.i586.rpm

downloaded and installed package to no avail :(. KMPlayer still doesnt play wmv files.

You could save it to desktop and install it from there until the plf mirrors are working again. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i586.rpm.html

Ah, tried that too eh. Could always use windows to view windowsmedia.

lol while Lakota ur right but the thing is that MPlayer plays windows media fine whereas KMPlayer is never in the mood :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waqas Ahsan

lol while Lakota ur right but the thing is that MPlayer plays windows media fine whereas KMPlayer is never in the mood :P

Perfect! Forget Kmplayer exsists and use Mplayer and all is well, LOL. Thats how things get done around here, LOL.

lol yeah thats what i was planning to do atlast. Thanks for the help Lakota

I had a similar issue in SuSE 10.1 untill I tried installing the w32codecs and THEN installing kmplayer. When I installed the player afterword it worked out. Try that.

i tried uninstalling and then installing KMPlayer again as u suggested but did not work:(