Video Problem WMV

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Saturday 05 January 2008, Clark wrote:

> there who can translate this into beginner speak please? or at least
> something I can work on even if I don't understand what I'm doing.

I don't know the official graphical tool way to do it.  The unofficial, 
unsupported, evil, horribly hacky way to do it is to go 
edit /etc/apt/sources.list (as root) and uncomment (get rid of the # symbols) 
this bit:

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
#deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
#deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse

(Yours may say something other than "gutsy" here.  The key word is 
multiverse.)

Then update and so forth in the usual fashion.  From the unspeakably evil 
command line, it would be something like:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install mplayer

You probably have to install the "w32codecs" package explicitly too, in order 
to play WMV files.

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre