No sound when playing .wmv files

[Jon Dixon]

Hi Karl

In nautilus, right click on an offending file and select properties.
Click on the audio/video tab.

What does it say for the 'Video' and 'Audio' sections.

Regards,

Jon

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:22:39 -0800, Karl <kaha at colug.org> wrote:
> Hello, no problem with the delay. I'm in no hurry, and appreciate your
> response.  :)
> 
> I don't have mplayer installed, I'm using totem-xine, and also have xine
> installed.
> I installed the w32codecs package from the current .deb, and it
> installed with no reported errors. So, we get:
> 
> kaha at wombat:~ $ locate divxa32.acm
> /usr/lib/win32/divxa32.acm
> 
> I then wanted to see if xine had the correct audio plugins enabled, and
> get:
> 
> kaha at wombat:~/Video $ xine --list-plugins=audio_decoder
> This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.3.
> (c) 2000-2004 The xine Team.
> 
>  Available xine's plugins:
>    -Audio decoder:
>      gsm610, mad, ffmpegaudio, flacdec, a/52, dvaudio, realadec, nsf,
> speex, vorbis, dts, faad, pcm, qta, win32a.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 12:12 +0300, ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY wrote:
> 
> > Hi, and sorry for the delay...
> >
> > Are you sure that w32codecs are installed correctly? (I don't have the
> > .deb package myself!).  Try running the following in a shell and send
> > the results back please:
> >       locate divxa32.acm
> >       mplayer -ac help | grep divxa32.acm
> >       mplayer -identify -frames 1 some_file.wmv
> > (of course, some_file.wmv would be one of those files you are having
> > trouble with).
> >
> > Again, sorry for the delay.
> > Ziyad.
> 
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