I need to know where I can find some Windows Media codecs for Kaffeine Player. (.wma and .wmv files) I'm running Mandriva Linux 2005 Limited Edition. If you can please give detailed instructions, as I am still fairly new to Linux.

Hi you will need to install the w32 codecs to get windows media to play they are available from this website.
mplayer codecs

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Use your favorite browser, and www.google.com/linux, and google up a copy of win32codecs. There should be installation instructions somewhere on the website (probably in Documentation) from which you download. If not, and if you also download the source tar.gz file along with whatever file format you need for your distro (rpm, deb, or other), you can use Archiver to look into the source package to find the README and INSTALL text files. They should have all the information you need to install the package in various formats.

I tend to find the codecs from the mplayer website more reliable and up to date compared to the rpms. Download the all package from here. Copy the extracted files to /usr/lib/win32 (create it if it doesn't exist).

If you really want to install from rpm, the right way to do it on Mandriva is to setup the PLF urpmi sources using the instructions from easyurpmi and doing as root,

Awesome, thanks. The command was a little different, but I got it, thank you so much.

I just installed all that on my laptop using URPMI. It worked fine when I put Mandriva on my desktop, but in the konsole after I installed all of the packages I typed:
urpmi win32-codecs
That installed but the wmv movies still didn't play, so I typed:
urpmi xine-win32
That started glitching out my computer and wasn't right so I removed it, but now I still can't watch my Windows Media Videos. Any ideas on what I did wrong?

Hello,

Thank you for helping me , if you can.

I have tried in vain to make kaffeine play the bbc radio stream content

After installing the win32 codecs, the libdvdcss library, and setting the DMA of my disc to ON, I invariably get this messge: kaffeine keeps complaingin that the libcook.so.6 or that another library failed.


If I try to launch kaffeine from my gui, it works but when i want to access the options to set up the kaffeine engine, where I believe the paths to the codecs are ,I cannot get there 8i suppose this is because my user is not root.

Then, I will i try to do : sudo kaffeine from shell,I read that there was a problem communicating with kaffeine, that it might have crashed.

If I want to launch kaffeine afterwards, I need to reboot my machine.

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dudeman41465, can you read my post above for a hint on how to install non rpm codecs.