WMV not working

totenengel · 02-23-2005, 01:44 AM

I am trying get some of my wmv videos to play in xine, but it's not working. I downloaded all of the codecs from the mplayer site, and installed them. xine is finding the codecs, but it said the videos were encrypted. I took them to a windows box, to try my luck, but it said i needed to get some certificates to view them. is there any way to get these "certificates" so they will play on linux?

Engmar · 03-02-2005, 04:52 PM

Usually the only way to get said certificates is to pay the copyright holder.
Some video vendors use such encryption to keep people from
pirating their commercial videos.

totenengel · 03-03-2005, 09:22 AM

Yeah, I got them in windows, but how would i get them to watch them in linux? It the "certificate" a validation file of some sort that i could coppy to disk with the videos?

Engmar · 03-03-2005, 01:46 PM

To tell you the truth, I don't know. I've never purchased video. I think I'll have to go do some reading =)