WMV9/Quicktime

[Guest Keyser]

i have various media players installed, as well as win32codecs. but many .wmvs still wont play. some do, but most dont. it seems to be that any wmv encoded with wmv9 wont play (also freeze whatever player i try to play them with), but olders (ex wmv8) will.

 

any suggestions on how to get these to play properly?

 

EDIT: also, quicktime movies play (a bit sketchy at times) but rarely do i get audio (if ever?) from them. is there something i am missing or is linux just not quite there yet with some proprietary codecs?

Edited February 28, 2005 by Keyser

[devries]

If there is a codec mplayer plays it :). What mplayer doesn't play is drm protected files (mostly streams), or incomplete (lots of little coloured squares) files.

 

For QT and sound you need to install faad.

[adamw]

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ - go there and set up an urpmi source for PLF. Now use urpmi or rpmdrake to install the package win32-codecs . Voila.

[photoworks]

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ - go there and set up an urpmi source for PLF. Now use urpmi or rpmdrake to install the package win32-codecs . Voila.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

just discovered this thread. as i have the same pb with VLC when playing quicktime (no sound). i am going to do what you recommand.

[photoworks]

weill i installed the win32 codecs, but still it does not work

 

here is what i got in konsole when i try to play a quicktime format :

VLC media player 0.8.2-test1 Janus

[00000283] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `QDM2'.

VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

[scarecrow]

vlc uses its own codecs, and not the win32-codecs package... this one is used by Mplayer and some xine extensions, like Kaffeine.

Either update your urpmi repos, including PLF and install anything vlc- related, or try finding a complete, uncrippled codec package at the vlc site.