.wmv video player for linux/gnome?

[psigourney]

Anyone know of a .dll or application to play .wmv (windows media video) files?

[Hitokiri_X]

If anything can,it's probally Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/news.html).

[Icarus]

.dll's are not native to Linux, those are from the 'Windows Days" :p

You'll want to look for a package called "w32codec.tar.gz" this has a good amount of Windows codecs that have been converted to work with Linux...

[Squill]

okay so I downloaded that w32codec.tar.gz file and extracted it to my /home/squill/win32codec directory and I have kaffeine directed to that folder in the "Xine setup" menu, under the win32 codecs section. I still cant open and view .wmv files. Did I do something wrong?

[t0t3r]

just get ureself mplayer .... ! it plays everything and even more :)

[TheSpeedoBeast]

Even though mplayer is freaking amazing, make sure that you are ok with their software license. Debian obviously is not ok with it, because they refuse to include mplayer in any of their apt sources... Just a word of warning!

[t0t3r]

software licenses ... ??

mplayer is open ... so what

[TheSpeedoBeast]

Maybe I am just way off, but I could have sworn that there was some licensing issue with mplayer... My apologizes if I was way off on that one. Anyone else know anything about this?

[sploo22]

Nope, it's GPL-2.

[Petrolhead]

I am not aware of any licencing issues. I heard that the mplayer devel team was unhappy with some distros that stripped mplayer of a few features.
Redhat 9 shipped mplayer without mp3 capability! Since its GPL I dont think end users have anything to worry about.
In my experience, mplayer will play anything you throw at it.

I dont know if anyone has observed this or not, but whenever mplayer plays a file for the first time it takes about 10 secs to do some heavy duty processing.
I wonder what that is? maybe trying to figure out the format since we cant really rely on extensions?

[hammer123]

As far as what media player, i like xine. It comes in a bunch of separate packages you have to download and [possibly] compile to get full capabilities which can be confusing. Most distro's give it complete abilities (i think) like my gentoo does though. And there is a site which lets you download prebuilt rpm files with full capabilities. If you compile from source i think you need xinelib, xine-ui, winows codecs, libdvdcss and, the mozilla plugin.

[JohnT]

Xine would be the one...or as its known in Gnome..gxine.

[hammer123]

gxine crashes more than xine-ui

[JohnT]

Originally posted by hammer123
gxine crashes more than xine-ui Uh...well, don't use gxine.:p.... You've probably dependencies to resolve or libs to update.

[j79zlr]

extract win32codecs.tar.bz2 to /usr/lib/win32

Thats all you need to have xine plays .avi's, wmv, etc

[gamblor01]

Kaffeine will play them no problem.

[GaMMa]

I've been a fan of mplayer for a while. It plays everything from the start, no extract packages and what not.

[bubblenut]

Originally posted by j79zlr
extract win32codecs.tar.bz2 to /usr/lib/win32

Thats all you need to have xine plays .avi's, wmv, etc

Apparently not :(

I downloaded win32 codec pack from http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and installed it in /usr/lib/win32 (as advised by the kaffeine FAQ). The win32 codec path is set to /usr/local/win32 in Kaffeine config but when I try to play any .wmv files (which I know work because I've viewed them in windows) they don't work and I get

Xine-Error: No Demux Plugin


Any ideas?
Thanks Bubble

[JohnT]

Xine-Error: No Demux Plugin Try re-installing "xine-lib".