Has anyone figured out how to play a .wmv file in Intrepid KDE 4.2

[Glenn R Williams]

On Monday 23 February 2009 23:29:35 Steven Vollom wrote:
> > What I think he's asking, which is a very good question, does sound work
> > at all? Other formats? Audio files? That'll pin down the problem. Ric
>
> Kaffeine plays everything but .wmv's and the sound works fine.
>
> The video portion of Dragon Player works fine except on .wmv's.  Sound does
> not work at all.
>
> Mplayer plays both video and audio except .wmv's,
>
> SMPlayer plays video but no sound and no wmv's.
>
> VLC plays both video and audio, but no wmv's.
>
> Does anyone with Intrepid have a similar experience.  KDE 4.2.
>
> Steven    By the way, this looks like a bug to me.

It's NOT a bug. I can play wmv files on SMPlayer, Kaffeine and SMPlayer with no 
problem. Have you installed the correct codecs for wmv? Look in synaptic for  
"w32codecs".

HTH,

Glenn