I am trying to get totem to play wma, wmv, and other files but it gives me the error that I do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins.
I have tried installing xine, gstreamer, upgrading totem, installing the latest version of totem, and have been unsuccessful. I have tried several tutorials to fix the problem and have been unsuccessful. Does anybody know of a simple solution or tutorial that I could use? I basically spent all day trying solutions that I've googled and haven't found anything that works.

I had similar problems with totem and I switched to mplayer which works fine.

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Steve Stites

You need to install gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras, gstreamer-plugins-ugly and possiblly gstreamer-ffmpeg.

Any idea where I can find those? I've looked and can't seem to find the right version. (i586)

When I try to installgstreamer-plugins-bad I get the following error:

warning: gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 9a795806
error: Failed dependencies:
amrwb is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
faac is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
faad2 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
gstreamer010 >= 0.10.17 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
ladspa is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
soundtouch is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
swfdec >= 0.3.6 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
xvid is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libBPM.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libSoundTouch.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libamrwb.so.3 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libcdaudio.so.1 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libdca.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libdivxdecore.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libdivxencore.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libfaac.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libfaad.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libgstpbutils-0.10.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libgstsdp-0.10.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libmms.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libswfdec-0.3.so.0 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libx264.so.57 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586
libxvidcore.so.4 is needed by gstreamer010-plugins-bad-0.10.6-42.pm.1.i586

I installed mplayer but when I go to open a an mpg or wmv file it doesn't respond or play the file. mplayer opens up but nothing happens, no error etc. I guess I'm missing something? Any ideas?
I found a cool way to update software with yast from another forum:

Open the control center.
Click YaST modules
Click Software
Click Change Installation Source
Click Add
Select http
Put packman.iu-bremen.de in the site field
Put suse/9.1 in the path field
Click OK

Now simply click on Install and Remove Software and the entire packman library is now listed.

Doing this turns an Mplayer installation into a 10 second affair. Additionally, packman has binaries for just about everything else you could possibly want.
But when I try to install the browser plugin for Netscape/Mozilla it bombs with no errors, the window closes and nothing happens other than it not installing.

Well I have installed and tried mplayer, smplayer, movie player,kaffeine, kmplayer,totem, xine, gstreamer, various plugins and win32 codecs and I couldn't any of them to play wmv or mpg files.

To install the gstreamer plugins, setup the packman repository for SUSE 10.1 (it should be compatible with SLED 10). To do this, go to YAST -> Software -> Software Repositories. Select the option to add a repository -> media type: http -> Repository Name: Packman -> Server Name: ftp.uni-erlangen.de -> Directory on Server -> suse/10.1. After that run YAST -Software -> Software management and search for the gstreamer plugins you wish to install.

Thanks Reddazz that fixed it. I can play the wmv files in my Mozilla browser and off a disc. My sound isn't working now though. I checked it and it said it wasn't enabled in the config, I have ALSA. I'm going to try and see if I can get that working now. Thanks again, appreciate the help.