.wmv not playing in lucid

[NoOp]

On 10/03/2010 06:19 AM, arshad wrote:
> 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.

Most likely because your system is outdated & hasn't be upgraded in a
long time?

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


Perhaps these will help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo
apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet
--allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get
--quiet update

[Basically does what Jordon was pointing out all in one line & without
the upgrade command]

Individual packages are here:
http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/index.html
You'll probably want:
http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/non-free-codecs.html
http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/w32codecs.html
and if you are on a 64bit system:
http://packages.medibuntu.org/lucid/w64codecs.html