No sound when playing .wmv files

[ulrich steffens]

hi all,
yesterday is installed 'hoary preview' on a friends computer and had
problems regarding the w32-codecs (couldnt get marillat repos working,
cause the entries in the wiki are wrong ). so i downloaded the 'all
codecs' package from mplayerhq.hu and had a look at the README.
they mention something like :
	* on debian the preferred dir is /usr/lib/codecs *
BUT they mention other dirs as well. so i symlinked all other dirs
mentioned to the preferred codecs-dir and then it started working.

maybe this helps some people too?

 ulrich


On Mo, 2005-03-14 at 16:34 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> Can someone send a link to one of these files so I can try on my system.
> 
> Glad I only made the wiki article about adding the codecs and not
> making playback work :)
> 
> Let's hope a collective effort can find a path to resolving this for you folks.
> 
> Mine plays whether set to ESD, OSS, or ALSA (my usual).
> 
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:20:33 -0800, Karl <kaha at colug.org> wrote:
> >  I also have these results. I did the procedure with the mplayer w32codecs,
> > and the same .wmv files have intermittent clicks and pops instead of sound.
> > This is with totem-xine as well as with xine.
> >  I would check with mplayer, but I haven't been able to successfully install
> > it.
> > 
> >  
> >  On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:08 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote: 
> >  > Hi Vincent > It has *all* the codecs so am unsure as to why this failing
> > for you. > I have a WMV 9 video that I used to test this. Well, I lack luck
> > then :-/ > Are you using generic Totem, or Totem-Xine? Totem-Xine of course.
> > Totem-Gstreamer hardly plays anythings anything at all. It bit better in
> > Hoary it seems, but still light years from what it hopefully will be soon. I
> > will give it another try in october, when Hoary+1 is released.... can't
> > wait... -- Vince 
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