Wmv9 on AMD64

[Conq]

Hello, Ive followed the steps in the 1st page and i got no error, but now i dont know how to run the mplayer32 . If I write mplayer32 in the terminal i get some sort of command instructions. And under Applications -> Sound & Video, it does not appear (it only appears the one i already had installed, i assume its the 64 one, but cant play wmv9 yet)

Any help?? Thanks!!

Yes, the package only installs the commandline utility. Try to type
mplayer32 <fileyouwanttoplay> in a terminal and it will probably just work =)

[Blind Valley]

Playing back wmv9 files on AMD64 is tricky. On i386 you can use mplayer with the win32 codecs, or the experimental vc-1 codec. However, using AMD64, things get a bit more difficult. It is possible to use the 32bit mplayer package, but it requires that all the libraries that it depends on are also 32bit. Thats why I made a package for you!

Here is what you do:

1. Install all ia32-libs packages using apt-get.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32ncurses5 ia32-libs-sdl ia32-libs-gtk lib32stdc++6

2. Download the package from:
http://folk.ntnu.no/grannas/debs/mpl...e7-1_amd64.deb
3. Install the package:

sudo dpkg -i mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb

4. Fetch the Win32 codecs from: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf8...060501.tar.bz2
5. Unpack it and install to /usr/lib/win32.

tar -jxvf essential-20060501.tar.bz2
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32
sudo cp essential-20060501/* /usr/lib/win32/

Use mplayer32 to play wmv9 files (but it can also be used for other files as well )

Edit: Added more IA32 packages.

It gives me something like that..

mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any suggestion?

[wazzie]

how do i get a graphical front end? none of the posts are clear. like a program i can just load or application to click on. i successfully used mplayer32, i dano if i can play wmv yet though.

[Conq]

It gives me something like that..

mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any suggestion?

It seems you haven't done step 1 correctly. Try to reinstall lib32asound2 (or
redo step 1).

[Conq]

how do i get a graphical front end? none of the posts are clear. like a program i can just load or application to click on. i successfully used mplayer32, i dano if i can play wmv yet though.

You need to make the symbolic link /usr/bin/gmplayer point at /usr/bin/mplayer32.

cd /usr/bin
sudo rm gmplayer
sudo ln -s mplayer32 gmplayer

[dimis]

Hi guys,
I installed yesterday Ubuntu and so far most things work. Anyway, I tried to install via automatix the various codecs, but I ended up not being able to play wmv files. Seeking for a solution I came here. I followed all the steps (twice) in copy-paste fashion. Yet, I am still not able to view wmv files. When I try to open a wmv file with mplayer I can hear the sound of the video, but NO image at all. I get the following error message:
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.

Any idea for a solution?
Thank you in advance for your time.

[dimis]

Quoting myself:

Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.

I don't know how this was fixed, I can now view the image and hear the sound as well. All I did was making again the soft link on gmplayer from mplayer32 ...
Anyway, mplayer seems to play perfectly all wmv videos I tried so far. On the other hand, it now has problems with some avis ... I mean, I can hear the sound and view the image but these two are not synchronized! However, I can perfectly see (synchronization is perfect) exactly the same mplayer-problematic-up-to-now-video with Totem (Movie Player)! On the other hand, Totem is not able to open all wmv files ...
Can someone explain me what is actually happening with the codecs. A reference would be extremely welcome as well, because so far I thought that codecs were universal and players retrieved them at will from a directory.

Thank you in advance,
My best regards from my lovely Ubuntu64!

[Conq]

Hi, this is usually caused by bad sound-card setups. You might want to try different -vo and -ao options in mplayer. Just type mplayer -vo help and you'll see a list of your options (same goes for -ao). Additionally, the mplayer homepage mplayerhq.hu has a lot of information regarding similar problems.

[joakim2]

I created my own mozilla-mplayer package that called the appropriate binary. I also used the newer upstream package for this purpose. Attached are binary and source.

Note: I created two binaries. One of them is intended for a 64 bit web browser, and the other and the other a 32 bit web browser. Also attached is the source package I used to create each.

I can see the plugin(s) in about:config, I can play fine from the command line using mplayer, but trying to watch a video in the browser crashes it with a no more useful error than seg fault. I'm using the 32 bit version you provided together with Swiftfox

[profjohn]

Hello everybody!

I am trying to install wmv9 compatibility on my ubuntu for days now, but I cant believe what a pain in the *** this has become. No matter what problem I solve there is still a shared library that mplayer32 won't find. In this case it's:

mplayer32: error while loading shared libraries: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Can anybody tell me what package i am missing?
Thanks for the help so far

LOTB

You need to do
sudo ia32-libs-openoffice.org

That fixed mine