.wmv not playing in lucid

arshad arshad3m at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 13:19:00 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 07:12 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 17:15 +0530, arshad wrote:
> > i forgot to say, that i could play the movie, but could not get the
> > sound, it prompts me to search for the plugin but returns with no
> > plugins found and the video continues to play without audio.
> > here is the output:
> > 
> > arshad at arshad-desktop:~$ totem
> > ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|Windows Media Audio 9
> > decoder|decoder-audio/x-wma, wmaversion=(int)3, bitrate=(int)96024
> > (Windows Media Audio 9 decoder)
> 
> echo 'deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ lucid free non-free' \
> >> /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | \
> sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
> 
> apt-get upgrade && apt-get install w32codecs
> 

thanks for your reply.
after executing the first two commands (source list addition and wget)
i tried to do the apt-get upgrade and it asks for 564mb to be downloaded
which is not possible at the moment.

so i just did the apt-get install w32codecs and still i could not get
the audio for wmv







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