How to make xine or mplayer play .wmv files
 

Anyone know how to make xine and mplayer play windoze media files (.wmv) ?

get the full codecs from mplayerhq.hu and install in /usr/lib/win32


regards

kkempter, hope you don't mind me posting on your thread as this is what I want to be able to do also.

I've downloaded the codecs and put them in /usr/lib/win32. Do I need to tell Xine where to find them? Also, I get an error in Xine saying, "error loading library: cook.so.6.0". There is a file in /usr/lib/win32 with a similar name, but it's just cook.so. What do I need to do to get this working?

is it not found? did you try linking cook.so.6.0 to cook.so?

Edit: Ok, I tried making a link using "ln -s cook.so cook.so.6.0". The link is also in /usr/lib/win32. I was also getting an error about a missing drv4.so.6.0, so I tried to make a link to drvc,so.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-08-05 18:53 cook.so.6.0 -> cook.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-08-05 18:51 drv4.so.6.0 -> drvc.so

Do these look ok? I found on Xine's site that you need to edit the config file, so I uncommented the line

decoder.external.win32_codecs_path: /usr/lib/win32,

but it's still not working. The config file I edited was in the /home/nick/.xine.

Any ideas?

:scratch: hmm.... not sure - mplayer shows cook.so.6 in the "all codecs" and realplayer codecs tarballs:

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050412-MD5SUMS
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050115-MD5SUMS

did you grab the "all" or "essential" codecs from mplayer site? maybe try a different version? or, check if you have it in /usr/lib/codecs

also, have you tried using mplayer - there's some .tgz's at linuxpackages.net if you don't feel like compiling it.....
http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=5626

I got the "essential" codecs from MPlayer's site. Also, I don't have a folder called /usr/lib/codecs. Hmm, I'll try getting MPlayer instead perhaps, or just getting the other codecs.

Thanks.

install those codecs in /usr/lib/win32

by default xine looks over there

if u do not have that directory then create one

regards

I did put them in /usr/lib/win32 (see post #5), but it still doesn't work.

ok can u try that as root?

Try what as root?

which distro are you using?

btw, he meant opening mplayer in root and then trying to run a wmv file.

Personally, I find this page always does the trick for me
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/

Allows to to enable all of Xine's functionality using the latest available version. Follow the steps and you should be okay.

I'm using Slack 10.1 and I don't have MPlayer; I'm trying to get this to work with Xine. Slack doesn't use RPMs either.

run xine as root

regards

Not sure about Xine but to install the codecs properly for Mplayer you need to extract them to /usr/lib/win32 before installing or re-compile mplayer... This way it can generate the needed /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf file so it knows the codecs are available...

try:

mplayer -vc help

for a list of already available codecs and there working state...

KC