playing .wmv files in linux
 

How do you do it...

Mat

Doesn't Mplayer supports them, it's just a guess cause I'm (also) a newbie

try mplayer, i read that it supports wmv files, can't say for sure as i dont use them myself

I can't seem to get Mplayer working all I ever seem to get is the following error message - Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) decive

What's going on...

Mat

well...xine can play that too.
and i've seen your error before, but i don't remember what i did to solve it ???

egag

Great help egag ;o)

Is it an easy one to solve?

Mat

hi,

to play .wmv files, as well as other Windows media files and Apple Quicktime, you need the win32 codec pack available for MPlayer / Xine. It's available for download - do a Google and you should find it easily.

Do I unzip itand compile from source in the standard way?

Mat

try
Where FILENAME is teh name of the video
and yes, mplayer supports wmv

to use wma in xmms, try
http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/

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Great help egag ;o)

Is it an easy one to solve?

Mat
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well.. if i solved it ....that can't be hard :)
i think i started " gmplayer " ( that's the gui ) and clicked the configuration menu.
in the videotab you can set the video-out driver.

hope this is more help.

egag

What distro are you using? If it supports rpm then get everything here:

http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/greysector/mplayer/

Maybe you're interested in this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=257991

as it also related to -vo problem.

Where do I unzip and store the relevant files once I have downloaded the directory?

Mat

win32 codecs for Mplayer
 

Where do I put them?

Hi.

The default location is /usr/lib/win32

Dave