Windows Media Video...

[spythebeast]

I am running gentoo linux and seem unable to get allot of my wmv stuff to work under it , I've tried using Xine , Mplayer and Totem...

Some WMV stuff works , and I'm guessing it's only things that are encoded in earlier formats of WMV , and I think it's WMV 9 / 10 or whatever that are playing up..

is there any way to run this stuff under linux?

[techieMoe]

You can download the most common win32 codecs from the Xine website:

http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases#binaries

The package you're looking for is "win32codecs".

There may be a simpler way to do this in Gentoo, but that particular distro isn't my forte.

[spythebeast]

ok, I'm now totally confused

there's a package for gentoo called "win32codecs" , I install this and run mplayer , wmv9 doesnt work...

I try re-installing mplayer by going "emerge mplayer" , and I get this message

Failed to find a Win32 codecs directory! (default: /usr/local/lib/codecs/)
Create it and copy the DLL files there! You can download the codecs from our
homepage at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/

So ok , I download the codecs and copy them into this folder (both by copying the DLLs directly into the folder , and by extracting the zip and keeping the folder names)

emerge mplayer again

same message

I try installing mplayer by hand from a tarball , but it complains that I'm using GCC 2.96 or something and won't compile when I actually
using GCC 3.3.5

eh????

[spencerf]

I had a similar problem a while ago.

Here is the solution http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gen...mplayer+gentoo

basically you need win32codecs as a USE flag in your make.conf

then you need to remerge mplayer

if you want mozilla plugin support you can also add
nsplugin in your make.conf

edit: it is not sufficient to just emerge win32codecs and them mplayer you need it as a USE flag.

and emerge mplayerplug-in

[spythebeast]

well , that seems to work

Although some videos seem to play at a lower quality than they did in windows media player, but most are fine

ah well can't have it all