.wmv not playing in lucid

[Johnny Rosenberg]

Den 2010-10-03 19:40:58 skrev arshad <arshad3m at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 09:43 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> 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 Most likely because your system is outdated & hasn't be upgraded in a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?
>>
>
>
> lolz, i never updated since the installations. :p
> but the system has been very cool and i don't have any major probs.

You should at least do the security updates anyway, I think.


Regards

Johnny Rosenberg



>> >
>> > 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
>>
>>
>
> thanks for this, i will check out tonight.
>