Enabling sound

[Daniel Carrera]

Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
>> .wmv is a proprietary format, it won't play by default. First try to 
>> play an Ogg file or an MP3 before trying that.
> 
> Thanks, Daniel. I just tried playing an ogg file and the sound was fine.

Ok, so what we need is codecs for .wmv. There are proprietary codecs you 
can use, if you don't mind using non-free software and third party 
repositories.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add this:

# PLF - Collection of Non-Free Proprietary Codecs & Applications
deb ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/ubuntu/plf/ dapper 
free non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/ubuntu/plf/ dapper 
free non-free


PLF contains software that may not be legal in some countries such as 
the USA (in particular, the library for playing your legally purchased 
DVDs which the DVD Consortium doesn't want you to play on anything but 
Microsoft Windows).

Add the above lines and run "sudo aptitude update" to refresh your 
package list.

To get the .wmv codecs:  sudo aptitude w32codecs
To play DVDs: sudo aptitude libdvdcss2

While we are on the topic of multimedia, you might want to install the 
following: libxine-extracodecs, flashplugin-nonfree, sun-java5-plugin

These are from the Ubuntu archives. The first is from universe and the 
other two are from multiverse.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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