Problem With Opening WMV File
 

Basically, I got a couple of videos on an iso image.
I used an open source program AcetoneISO (I have also tried Gmount-iso) to mount it.

However, I double click and it wouldnt play. It just goes to stop.
I have used the dragon-player as well as Kaffeine.

Is there any way to play the file using the command line?
Then at least I can diagonise what is wrong.

c@c-laptop:/media/cdrom0/files/videos/n700_822$ ./ccent01.wmv
bash: ./ccent01.wmv: cannot execute binary file

What is wrong?

KMplayer works with .mov but not .wmv

With mplayer I can open .wmv.
Try to install plugins to open wmv files.

Your action on the command line doesn't make sense to me as a media file is not an executable script or a binary.
I use vlc for all media files. try typing
instead. This should launch totem which afaik is the default media player in Ubuntu and, if all codecs are available, is capable of playing .wmv files. (I think)

this is
a video is not an executable binary file
you NEED to use a media program to view it.

there are about 50 ( exageration ) different types of "wmv" including ASF

what codec packages did you install ?
mplayer with the 2011 ALL tar.bz2 is all that are required ( they are NOT free to use in most country's )

Mplayer can play a movie file directly from the command line even if X has not been started using the command

You will see many more options in man mplayer.

I haven't tested it with a *.wmv because I don't have one handy, but I have launched *.mpg and *.avi files with it.

I have come to rely on VLC as my primary media player because, in my experience, if it doesn't play in VLC, it doesn't play in Linux. I've not yet had VLC fail to play a *.wm? file.

I have tested it.It works.

Help!

This is my output using VLC video player;

No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "wmas". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not support the audio or video format "MSS2". Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.

I have googled and they told me to install ubuntu-restricted-extras.
However, the package seems to be broken.

Help!!!!!!

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-mp...html#more-5275

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

sudo apt-get -q update

sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring

sudo apt-get -q update

This doesnt work.

This solves the sound but not video problem in mplayer. VLC still dont work.

opps must run it from the terminal .

Some info about the wmas codec from this thread at Ubuntu forums.

(note, that thread is from 2009 so some of that may be out of date)

I wanted to play some .wmv files on linux. I was getting an error about MSS2 codec. I searched VLC first. They basically said "you can use a dmo to link to the windows drivers (with wine) to play in VLC, but this is an illegal format for us to play, so we don't support it and never will, so don't ask anymore".

Searching some more forums I found that mplayer will play the MSS2 format if you download w32codecs. I downloaded them and when I checked, it said w64codecs. It turns out that if you are on a 64-bit machine, you can't use the w32codecs, and the w64codecs is only a severely limited version and doesn't do the job.

I went to a 32-bit linux machine and installed w32codecs and played the videos fine with mplayer. There was some audio crackling, but that could have been the original quality, not the codec.

I went to the mplayer site about 64-bit support and they basically said "it's not worth it to build the 64-bit set".

MPlayer now supports MMS2 codec via libavcodec:

Great news for MPLayer!

Does it work on 64-bit systems?

Well, it works on my 64bit system :).

glad to hear it, thanks