Anyway To Play WMV on Linux ?

[Anonymous]

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Hello,

First before i begin i know that that WMV is a microsoft standard, but the fact is i still have some WMV films which i would like to play on linux, here is what i have tried to do to overcome the problem:

1. Obviously i first tried to change the format, to .avi but when i do this i again only see the film for about a minute and then it causes and error ( dont ask what kind) but overall it did not do much.

2. I downloaded a program that claimed it could play wmv files on Linux i think it was here http://www.medium-player-download.de...layer-wmv.html

If there are any other suggestions i am all ears.

Best Regards

[variant]

mplayer plays all wmv movies and any other movie format you can think up:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage

I strongly recommend you download the source code and compile it as the rpm that suse distributes is severly broken and can only play a few file formats

[heema]

yeah i play my wmv movies with gmplayer

[Slip]

I use Xine

http://xinehq.de/

[variant]

Can xine play wmv9?

[logan5]

According to the Xine web page it will handle
asf (.asf, .wmv, .wma) - Window Media Video 8,9

http://xinehq.de/index.php/features

[zba78]

My xine works fine with wmv, wmf, wma

[Mariano]

Hi,

To play .wmv .asf, etc in Xine you only have to download windows codecs from
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
to folder /usr/lib/win32 (default for Xine). If you don't have this folder, create it an then put in it all files of "essential codecs package". This only package is enough.

Regards

[Stormblazer]

I still reccomend MPlayer over Xine.
If you don't like MPlayer that much, use VLC instead.

[denetarik]

Hi to all! And what about Streaming? Do they (Xine and MPlayer) can work with these formats of streaming? (asf, wma, wmv). For example, to view an embedded clip in a Web Page?
What about RealPlayer for Windows? or VLC?

Thanks very much!!