wmv?

[thewho443]

Is there any way to get .wmv files to play on linux?

[pxc]

Yes (I think). Compile xine or mplayer with the win32 codecs.

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#USE="win32codecs" emerge xine-lib

(not that you still need a frontend for xine [noatun, gxine, etc])
or

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#USE="win32codecs" emerge mplayer

Happy playing!

[thewho443]

I keep getting this error message:

bash: win32codecs: command not found

[pxc]

Open up a root console. If you're not already root, go into the command line (bash, like you were in before) and type

su -

then enter your root password.

then type exactly this (case counts!)

USE="win32codecs" emerge xine-lib

and press enter

to do the same for mplayer, type

USE="win32codecs" emerge mplayer

and press enter.

That should do it!

[cvill64]

need to know if you're using 64bit or 32bit. In 64bit, install wine, then IE6 and WMP 6.4, for 32 bit, do what was said and then run a media player like mplayer...win32codecs is not a media player

[pxc]

Right. So after you run the emerge commands, to play a wmv file, type

mplayer videofile.wmv

or, if you prefer a pointy-clicky interface:

gmplayer videofile.wmv

[baRRacuda]

In Gentoo (AMD64) i did :

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USE="win32codecs" emerge mplayer-bin mplayer
cd /usr/bin
mv mplayer mplayer64
mv mplayer-bin mplayer


this way, when i use kmplayer or kplayer (64-bit ones) , they use mplayer-bin with win32codecs to play videos. When i want 64-bit mplayer, i can just "mplayer64 video.avi"

This is good because this way, i was able to watch wmv9 videos in web pages using Konqueror and its kmplayer plugin...

Hope this helps someone...