No sound when playing .wmv files

[Karl]

Hrm... that would tend to imply that the issue is possibly with xinelib.
But the file payed fine for me with xine when I was running Gentoo.
Could it be that the Ubuntu xine/xinelib is compiled with different
flags/options?


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:37 +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> I downloaded the file.
> 
> When I play the file through totem-xine, it stays silent mainly with the 
> odd word coming through.
> 
> With Mplayer, I get sound all the way through the clip.
> 
> - Jon
> 
> Jon Dixon wrote:
> > I'll take a look at home. Am at work at the moment.
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:18:41 -0800, Karl <kaha at colug.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>I don't know if it plays okay under Windows (I haven't had Windows
> >>installed since 1994. Went from OS/2 Warp to Linux).
> >>It played fine on this machine when it was running Gentoo. I don't see
> >>what that could have to do with it, but my choice of Linux distro is the
> >>only thing that's changed. Same sound card, same software (Xine).
> >>Here's a link to one of the files that is misbehaving.
> >>
> >>http://theheatsinkbbs.ca/ftp/pub/local/clips/IraqNews.wmv
> >>
> >>I've downloaded a fresh copy of it (thinking that I'd somehow corrupted
> >>the old one during the backup I did to install Ubuntu), but it does the
> >>same thing (no audio). Perhaps the file itself will shed some light on
> >>the problem. (BTW, the clip is hilarious).  :)