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I'm some what new to linux, but I'm starting to get to learning my way around. Currently I use a Slack 10.1 system and it's my primary at work. Part of my job is to review movie files that can be in any format, (avi, mov, wmv, mpg, etc.). I have Xine, mplayer, kaffien, as well as a laundry list of others, on my windows box they all played fine, how do I get them all to play on my linux box?
I can play some of the wmv files, but I have green lines in the video, and others just don't play I get 2 errors:
1)A problem occured while loading a library or a decoder (wmvdmod.dll).
2)Video codec 'MS WMV 8 (win32)' is not handled. You might need to install additional plugins to be able to play some types of movies
I did install the plugins and I found my codecs in /usr/lib/codecs, I found at another site they said that all I needed to do was cp the windows codecs to /usr/lib/codecs/win32 which I did, but it didn't help.
I'm not sure if I need to link these or were to link them, or if I need to do something else to get it to work correctly, so any help you can provide will be great, thanks in advance.
I would recommend you to go uninstall mplayer, go to mplayer homepage and grab the latest codecs (make sure to get the all codecs package, since you will need them all) and the latest mplayer. Remember to install the codecs _before_ compiling mplayer (compile, don't use packages. I found that compiling mplayer gives a considerable performance boost) otherwise mplayer won't read the codecs and will compile without support for them (thus leaving a black or blue screen when trying to play those formats).
Follow the documentation of mplayer and you can't go wrong
If you are having problems with some wmv files you might want to consider using wine+wmp.
Use winetools to install wine + wmp and it should download any additional codecs you need.
I did get my player from linuxpackages, as well as the codecs. I will try to remove all my players, reinstall the codecs and then reinstall mplayer. I'll let you know if it helped
Instead of using MPlayer, you could just grab the mplayer codecs and drop 'em in the appropriate directory on your Linux system. The Win32 .dll codecs work best, I find... Xine will load those dynamically without needing to recompile, and it'll play WMV, MOV, DivX, and all the other "proprietary" formats.
Mplayer itself gives the advice (start mplayer within a terminal and you are able to read it) to disable the dedection of the used CPU at runtime, so choose this option in every case, the other options are not important, if you don't use a GUI like GMplayer or KPlayer for MPlayer.
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