no sound

[Bob Jonkman]

I manage a security cam that records in .wmv format.  It plays fine on 
Windows Media Player, but on anything else (eg. VLC on both Windows and 
Linux) I can only see the key frames, which refresh maybe once a second.

I think that these .wmv files use a video stream for which only 
Microsoft has the proper codec.   Ray's problems are a perfect 
illustration of the problems with proprietary data formats.

OSSGuy has a good blog post on the problems with proprietary codecs: 
http://ossguy.com/?p=233

--Bob.

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Brent wrote:
>
>
> Ray,
>
> Received it fine but it won't p-lay here either. As a matter of fact 
> it is slow and jerky with no transitions...just sits on the first 
> slide and jerks about for a while.  Individual slides play at normal 
> speed but no sound either.
>
> Currently I am setting up an older box with only 512 memory and this 
> is what I am using right now. Other PPS play fine however, including 
> sound. Where did this come from and have you had any success playing 
> it on other machines other than your Winblows set up?
>
> Brent
> ray house wrote:
>> Brent,
>>             I sent you a sample at your own email address,  thanks.  Ray
>>
>> > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:22:58 -0600
>> > From: brent-hughes at shaw.ca
>> > To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > Subject: Re: no sound
>> >
>> > Ray,
>> >
>> > Are you testing this always with the same file? Perhaps the file is
>> > corrupt? Have you tried another PPS with audio? Can you send me one of
>> > the files you have tried and I will try it here?
>> >
>> > As for the password malfunction....caps lock?
>> >
>> > Often I find the solution to a perplexing problem is a simple one.
>> >
>> > Brent
>> >
>> > ray house wrote:
>> > > Hi Tom, again. Afther a restart, I was able to uninstall the
>> > > restricted-extras and re-install them with the same results, 
>> still no
>> > > audio on PPS videos. Ray
>> > >
>> > > 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > From: v.2.ol at hotmail.com
>> > > To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > > Subject: RE: no sound
>> > > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:37:23 -0400
>> > >
>> > > Hi Tom, I already have Ubuntu restricted-extras installed. I 
>> thought I
>> > > could uninstall it and then reload it but I could not do that! 
>> when I
>> > > tried it, it would not recognise my password ?? Ray.
>> > >
>> > > 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:01:07 -0400
>> > > Subject: Re: no sound
>> > > From: tom.mckay1 at gmail.com
>> > > To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > >
>> > > Hi Ray,
>> > > This problem is likely due to the format in which the videos have 
>> been
>> > > encoded when they were originally included into the PPS. Installing
>> > > the restricted-extras may be the solution. Instructions on how to do
>> > > this can be found here
>> > > 
>> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats#Ubuntu%209.04%20%28Jaunty%20Jackalope%29>.
>> > > Tom McKay
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:39 AM, ray house <v.2.ol at hotmail.com
>> > > <mailto:v.2.ol at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hello Andrew, They open automatically in Open Office.org, but
>> > > there is no audio. WMV and others work OK. It's Power Point videos
>> > > that dont. They used to open OK. Thanks, Ray
>> > >
>> > > > Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:53:20 -0400
>> > > > Subject: Re: no sound
>> > > > From: mathenge at gmail.com <mailto:mathenge at gmail.com>
>> > > > To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > If you can save the document to the desktop you can right-click
>> > > on it
>> > > > and select a menu option "Open with Other Application..." That
>> > > should
>> > > > allow you to select OpenOffice.org as the application to open that
>> > > > document.
>> > > >
>> > > > Also, if you right click on the document once you've saved it to
>> > > your
>> > > > desktop, you can right-click on it, select "Properties" and then in
>> > > > the "Open With" tab you can select OpenOffice.org as the 
>> application
>> > > > to open those types of documents.
>> > > >
>> > > > Andrew
>> > > >
>> > > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM, ray house<v.2.ol at hotmail.com
>> > > <mailto:v.2.ol at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>> > > > > Hello, it's me again, with another problem. I have no sound on
>> > > mail
>> > > > > attachements when they are in PPS. I use Ubuntu 9.04 and the
>> > > attachements
>> > > > > are opened with Open office.org <http://office.org> 3. This
>> > > used to work for all types of
>> > > > > attachements, but now pps does not work. They are opened fine
>> > > when I use
>> > > > > Vista. I have done no changes to the system, as far as I know.
>> > > So, again, I
>> > > > > need your help, sorry, but I dont know what is going on.
>> > > Thanks, Ray
>