Guest ZapoTex Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 (edited) Is there a wmv codec for Linux? If there is, I can't find it. Only Windows stuff. Is there a program that lets me view them in "Kaboodle style"? I mean, a program that doesn't require launching from console, but has an interface. I tried mplayer, but there's too much to write in console. Thank you all! Edited July 14, 2004 by ZapoTex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 instead of Kaboodle, give MPlayer a try. see my post in This Thread about setting up sources & which packages to get. i tried Kaboodle (& various other players) early on, but i could never get any of them to play all files. MPlayer does this for me, both audio & video, Windows & non Windows file types alike. if i remember correctly, Kaboodle could never play a .wmv file. maybe that's supposedly changed with the latest version, but i haven't looked into it in a while since i've settled on MPlayer. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 Also, you'll be needing the win32-codecs from plf. Head to http://easyurpmi.zarg.org and add a plf (and a contrib) source to urpmi. Once you've dome that, type urpmi win32-codecs in a console (as root) and it will install what you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZapoTex Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Thank you all! But does Mplayer have a graphical interface? I thought it didn't, but I'm wrong, I hope. Thank you again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Thank you all! But does Mplayer have a graphical interface? I thought it didn't, but I'm wrong, I hope. Thank you again. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes. You can use it both from the command line and from GUI. In fact there are many, many skins for Mplayer: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/Skin/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Other player based of mplayer are kplayer kmplayer I love kplayer. It rocks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CsHoSi Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Hi, I installed the win32-codec from PLF and I can play most WMV files now on xine and totem. It won't seem to play Windows Media 9 files though. Is that just the way it is or am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Mplayer plays everything.... :) Th codecs are in /usr/lib/win32 You can check if you have everything. On the mplayer site you can download all codecs (including the ones you seem to miss know). Just copy them to the win32 folder and it should work. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CsHoSi Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 thanks... I had 56 files in /usr/lib/win32. there were 61 in the essential codec pack from mplayer site. I copied and overwrote them into win32 directory. Still a no-go. I tried to urpmi mplayer but it said I need liblzo.so.1, so I find the rpm and install it. Run it again and it says I need libfribidi.so.0. I find libfribidi0-0.10.4-4mdk.i586.rpm and run it, says I need fribidi. So I find fribidi-0.10.4-4mdk.i586.rpm, run it, and it says I need libfribidi.so.0!!! Ahh a vicious cycle! I thought urpmi was supposed to take care of these dependencies automatically. Is it because I changed to online contrib? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 (edited) You got your sources set up correctley? The Mandrake CD's, update, contrib and PLF are what you need. Urpmi doesn't work if it can't find the packages. (PS in my win32 are 96 codecs. I think you need to install some more. :) ) Edited July 16, 2004 by devries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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