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

[Brendan]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, you wrote:
> > 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.

Hmmmmm, can you copy the file to somewhere in home home directory or in /tmp?
Mplayer doesn't seem to see the file...

And for your codecs, from the command line, as root (or in the Synaptic)
w32codecs is the package name. 

On the command line, to see if it is installed, you can type:
dpkg -l |grep w32codecs

and see if it has a little "ii" next to it's name...That means it's installed.