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

Steven Vollom stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 24 05:26:38 UTC 2009


> Can you navigate to the wmv file in a command line window? If you can,
> enter the command:
> mplayer file.wmv

steven at Yesua:~$ mplayer /media/disk-1/CompletedDownloads/International.wmv
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 4)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing /media/disk-1/CompletedDownloads/International.wmv.
File not found: '/media/disk-1/CompletedDownloads/International.wmv'
Failed to open /media/disk-1/CompletedDownloads/International.wmv.


Exiting... (End of file)
steven at Yesua:~$

I just don't know how to word the command yet.  I tried a bunch of other ways 
too.  How do I find the address and title for mplayer that when entered would 
open the mplayer package?  The /media/disk-1.......... is correct for the 
address to the movie.

Steven




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