.WMV playback plays sounds but no Video on Ubuntu

tarobs · 08-26-2006, 09:52 PM

Hi, I'm just a relatively new user of Ubuntu. I installed Mplayer on my computer. When I tried to play .WMV files, it just plays the sounds of the clip, but the video doesn't show up. There is an error message shown when I play a .wmv file:

Cannot Find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57

Can anyone help me? What should I do?

jens · 08-26-2006, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarobs

Hi, I'm just a relatively new user of Ubuntu. I installed Mplayer on my computer. When I tried to play .WMV files, it just plays the sounds of the clip, but the video doesn't show up. There is an error message shown when I play a .wmv file:

Cannot Find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57

Can anyone help me? What should I do?

Make sure you enable all your repos (just click on them in synaptic).
Next type:
sudo apt-get install w32codecs

tarobs · 08-29-2006, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarobs

Hi, I'm just a relatively new user of Ubuntu. I installed Mplayer on my computer. When I tried to play .WMV files, it just plays the sounds of the clip, but the video doesn't show up. There is an error message shown when I play a .wmv file:

Cannot Find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57

Can anyone help me? What should I do?

I enabled all the repo's already, and I installed the w32codecs, but I got this as a reply:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

I'm totally clueless. MPlayer is still showing the same error

jens · 08-29-2006, 04:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tarobs

I enabled all the repo's already, and I installed the w32codecs, but I got this as a reply:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate

I'm totally clueless. MPlayer is still showing the same error

I just checked the Ubuntu repos and they do have a w32codecs packagage.

Since that didn't seem to work for you (are you really sure you enabled all repos?), I advice doing this the traditional(and always working) way.

Just copy and paste the following commands (this will always work for both Xine and MPlayer).

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32

Next, download this codec package in your home map(just click on it): http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...060611.tar.bz2
If Firefox downloaded it on your desktop, drag and drop it in your user's home map.

tar xvfj all-20060611.tar.bz2
sudo cp ./all-20060611/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
sudo cp ./all-20060611/* /usr/lib/win32/

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/*
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/win32/*

Now it should simply play everything...

tarobs · 08-29-2006, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jens

I just checked the Ubuntu repos and they do have a w32codecs packagage.

Since that didn't seem to work for you (are you really sure you enabled all repos?), I advice doing this the traditional(and always working) way.

Just copy and paste the following commands (this will always work for both Xine and MPlayer).

sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32

Next, download this codec package in your home map(just click on it): http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...060611.tar.bz2
If Firefox downloaded it on your desktop, drag and drop it in your user's home map.

tar xvfj all-20060611.tar.bz2
sudo cp ./all-20060611/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
sudo cp ./all-20060611/* /usr/lib/win32/

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/*
sudo chmod 755 /usr/lib/win32/*

Now it should simply play everything...

Thank you very much! But I have a question: where's the home map? I'm really sorry but I couldn't find it.

Thank you for your patience

tarobs · 08-29-2006, 01:32 PM

O, I got it. Thank you very much! It's working now.