hi.
I need help installing codecs to play .wma audio files. No player is playing it. I specially want amarok to play it, but other players too.
I didn't find any package usable searching for windows audio decoder plugin or .wma in SYNAPTICS (ubuntu distro).

Thanks

Did you try...

vlc should play that audio file. Have you tried it?

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

If you want Amarok, try Amarok with the xine engine to play wma. If Amarok is not configured with the xine sound engine, you must start Amarok, enter configuration and change to xine. If you have the package xine-lib installed, it must be uninstalled before Amarok-xine will play.

don't you know a plugin name or codec name to do it? I don't want to install a new video/music player. I just want the codecs so what I have can play it.

My amarok has xine engine selected in sound system anyway.

I have searched for xine in my suynaptic, and it seems many xine's libraries were already installed. I installed a xine-ui (user interface), but nothing changed in my amarok. The only option in sound system is still ONLY xine, and that's what is selected. So, xine don't solve my problem. I haven't restarted the system yet, but amarok I restarted many times... Its behaviour didn't change about .wma sound files.

Not that xine...

Xine-ui is the GUI for the xine-lib player, another player using the xine engine. Have you tried to install libxine1-ffmpeg from your Ubuntu repositories for restricted packages? Have you tried these guides?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...FWindowsCodecs

You might look in the list of packages in both the non-restricted and the restricted repositories in Ubuntu to see if there are two versions of Amarok, xine, and others. Packages from the restricted list are what you need.

I use openSUSE 11.0 and the approach to this problem is a little different, but the guides seem straightforward enough. Good Luck

I searched for libxine1-ffmpeg in synaptic and it was already installed in my system

I'll try ubuntu-restricted-extras now, as one of your links asks to do.

I didn't restart the system, just amarok. ubuntu-extras didn't solve the problem either.

Found a way to solve it all pretty simple. Just install MPlayer codec folder in the general local place like /usr/local/lib/codecs.

Amarok starts playing anything right away.

Thanks