KMPlayer win32 codecs Mandriva 2007

Waqas Ahsan · 10-09-2006, 07:31 PM

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

Brian1 · 10-09-2006, 07:47 PM

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

Brian

Waqas Ahsan · 10-10-2006, 02:46 AM

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

aerogate · 10-10-2006, 03:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waqas Ahsan

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

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

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

Waqas Ahsan · 10-12-2006, 06:22 AM

thanks aerogate.
what package should i be looking for

Code:

urpmi win32-codecs

returns no packages

Lakota · 10-12-2006, 06:54 AM

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.

Lakota · 10-12-2006, 07:23 AM

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.

Waqas Ahsan · 10-12-2006, 07:29 AM

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

Waqas Ahsan · 10-12-2006, 07:42 AM

downloaded and installed package to no avail

. KMPlayer still doesnt play wmv files.

Lakota · 10-12-2006, 07:43 AM

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.

Waqas Ahsan · 10-12-2006, 09:02 AM

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

Lakota · 10-12-2006, 09:13 AM

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.

Waqas Ahsan · 10-12-2006, 09:17 AM

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

geminiviper · 10-15-2006, 11:25 PM

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.

Waqas Ahsan · 10-16-2006, 04:15 AM

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