No wmv video in mplayer or anything else

arapidsfan · #1 30th May 2006, 01:35 AM

ok so I have Fedora Core 5,

Everything works fine except, I cant get wmv to play. Pretty sure I just can't get wmv 9 to run. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gen...mv-solved.html

I can get this file to run: http://www.philmultic.com/liufang/video/bawang03.wmv

but i cant get - http://pointers.audiovideoweb.com/st...k.wmv/play.asx
for example

I have the win32 codecs, but I am not sure how to use the the use flag because I didn't compile it i got the rpm from livna.

suprised more people haven't had this trouble

u-noneinc-s · #2 30th May 2006, 01:48 AM

Try this method. It worked for many.
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...s.html#MPlayer
Scroll down a little below the mplayer installation to this part http://fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayerplug-in/3.25/ and use this
rpm. http://fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer...1.fc5.i386.rpm.
You should uninstall the one you already installed. Follow the instructions carefully.

arapidsfan · #3 30th May 2006, 02:53 AM

thanks, but it is deeper than the mplayer plug in,
I will try it.

brunson · #4 30th May 2006, 03:06 AM

There are codecs for mplayer to play wmv, but they are binary codecs taken from Windows and complete and blatant copyright infringements to have them if you don't own a copy of windows. They're not simply not distributed by any of the Linux distros, they're not even hosted by a US server.

Go to mplayerhq.hu, then find the downloads, choose "Other Binary Codec Packages" on one of the servers in china, then grab the "all codecs" package. Untar it and place the codecs into /usr/lib/win32 and you should be able to play just about anything.

Sit back, crack open a brewski and wait for the thought police to arrive. They'll be there shortly.

arapidsfan · #5 30th May 2006, 03:30 AM

ok - u-noneinc-s - I tried that new plug-in. But it still doesn't run wmv files. expept for sound

I have all the codecs, but i still have the same problem. I cant get video. THis is really frustrating

in /usr/lib/win32 and
sr/local/lib/codecs/*

?

acelpdec.ax jp2avi.dll tssoft32.acm
alf2cd.acm l3codeca.acm tvqdec.dll
aslcodec_dshow.dll l3codecx.ax ubv263d+.ax
aslcodec_vfw.dll LCMW2.dll ubvmp4d.dll
asusasv2.dll LCodcCMP.dll ultimo.dll
asusasvd.dll LCODCCMW2E.dll VDODEC32.dll
ativcr2.dll lhacm.acm vdowave.drv
atrac3.acm lsvxdec.dll vgpix32d.dll
atrc.so.6.0 m3jp2k32.dll vid_3ivX.xa
AvidQTAVUICodec.qtx m3jpeg32.dll vid_cvid.xa
avimszh.dll m3jpegdec.ax vid_cyuv.xa
avizlib.dll mcdvd_32.dll vid_h261.xa
BeHereiVideo.qtx mcmjpg32.dll vid_h263.xa
CLRVIDDC.DLL mi-sc4.acm vid_iv32.xa
clrviddd.dll mpg4c32.dll vid_iv41.xa
cook.so mpg4ds32.ax vid_iv50.xa
cook.so.6.0 msadp32.acm ViVD2.dll
ctadp32.acm msg711.acm vivog723.acm
CtWbJpg.DLL msgsm32.acm vmnc.dll
ddnt.so.6.0 msh261.drv voxmsdec.ax
DECVW_32.DLL msms001.vwp vp31vfw.dll
divxa32.acm msnaudio.acm vp4vfw.dll
divx_c32.ax msrle32.dll vp5vfw.dll
divxc32.dll msscds32.ax vp6vfw.dll
divxdec.ax msvidc32.dll vssh264core.dll
divx.dll mvoiced.vwp vssh264dec.dll
dnet.so.6.0 nsrt2432.acm vssh264.dll
drv2.so.6.0 pclepim1.dll vsshdsd.dll
drv3.so.6.0 qdv.dll vsslight.dll
drv4.so.6.0 qpeg32.dll vsswlt.dll
drvc.so qtmlClient.dll wma9dmod.dll
dspr.so.6.0 QuickTimeEssentials.qtx wmadmod.dll
huffyuv.dll QuickTimeInternetExtras.qtx wmsdmod.dll
i263_32.drv QuickTime.qts wmspdmod.dll
iac25_32.ax rt32dcmp.dll wmv8ds32.ax
iccvid.dll scg726.acm wmv9dmod.dll
icmw_32.dll sipr.so.6.0 wmvadvd.dll
imaadp32.acm sp5x_32.dll wmvdmod.dll
imc32.acm tm20dec.ax wmvds32.ax
ir32_32.dll tokf.so.6.0 wnvplay1.dll
ir41_32.dll tokr.so.6.0 wnvwinx.dll
ir50_32.dll tsccvid.dll zmbv.dll
ivvideo.dll tsd32.dll

arapidsfan · #6 30th May 2006, 03:44 AM

when I run a wmv in plain mplayer i get ...
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo video format ...
In the plug there is no video just audto.

u-noneinc-s · #7 30th May 2006, 04:04 AM

arapidsfan: Sorry I gave you the wrong "section" and link. It is on the same page farther up in the xine xine-totem section, and
it's http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and the file is not an rpm http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...060501.tar.bz2. Sorry about that.

Also, I tried that link you can't play, but it seems to be broken. I just get the old 404 Not found.

brunson: Thanks for that info, I was not aware that it was actually a Windows binarie that required a liscensed copy of
Windows. I do have a liscensed copy of Windows, but I assume that doesn't cover using this codec on a Linux system.
Guess I should hurry up and get rid of it before Bill finds out.

brunson · #8 30th May 2006, 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arapidsfan

Cannot find codec matching selected -vo video format ...

"-vo" is the switch to specify video *output*, not input. You have mplayer running incorrectly for your system. On my installation "video" is not a valid option for -vo:

Code:

foxtrot(~)$ mplayer -vo help
MPlayer dev-CVS-060417-03:18-rpm.livna.org-4.1.0 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 Willamette; Xeon Foster (Family: 15, Stepping: 3)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1


Available video output drivers:
        xv      X11/Xv
        x11     X11 ( XImage/Shm )
        xover   General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers
        gl      X11 (OpenGL)
        gl2     X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version
        sdl     SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!)
        aa      AAlib
        caca    libcaca
        dxr3    DXR3/H+ video out
        directfb        Direct Framebuffer Device
        dfbmga  DirectFB / Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550
        xvidix  X11 (VIDIX)
        cvidix  console VIDIX
        null    Null video output
        xvmc    XVideo Motion Compensation
        mpegpes Mpeg-PES to DVB card
        yuv4mpeg        yuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools
        png     PNG file
        jpeg    JPEG file
        gif89a  animated GIF output
        tga     Targa output
        pnm     PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file
        md5sum  md5sum of each frame

arapidsfan · #9 30th May 2006, 04:21 AM

ok, well I have tried as stated before the codecs on the page, no reults. it seems that the link I gave you just went down well try javascript:mediaPlayer.play({w:'mms://a1503.v115042.c11504.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1503/11504/v0001/mlbmls.download.akamai.com/11504/2006/open/partner/sierra_mist/smgotw/05/052406_smgotw_ruiz_350.wmv',w_id:'1329',type:'v_fr ee'})

i only get audio

brunson: how does this deal with anything? What should I do?

parnass · #10 7th August 2006, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arapidsfan

ok so I have Fedora Core 5,

Everything works fine except, I cant get wmv to play....

I have the win32 codecs,...

I had the same problem, but fixed it by upgrading xine-lib using xine-lib-1.1.2-3.lvn5.i386.rpm