i have a couple wmv movies that i would like to play. I added the extension in the myth video setup. So now i would see the movie. It <no surprise> wouldnt play. Ok so i went to mplayer website and they do have codec install for wmv and others!!! aswome.. one problem.. there is no instructions on howto install it does say you have to recompile mplayer to get it to work. has anyone done this.. I have no idea where to start i have never recompiled anything. Truthfully it doesnt make much sense to this windowz baby. But im learning! any help would be great.

well the mplayer docs though long and tedious to read are very good at telling you how to recompile mplayer with the various support.

wow.. hmm i did use that command and it still didnt play the wmv movie.. the wmv plays fine in windows.. ill keep trying and report back.. also i will have to go back to the mplayer site..but i original tried and didnt find a howto .. ill look again i have been known to miss something right under my now

those wmv files might be for windows media player 9, so you might have to find the codec for those type of files, the w32codecs are a bunch of standard ones

yeah it is encoded in wm9. so ill keep looking. =)

Hi

again some question an windows codecs (special wmv WinMediaPlayer) ... I try to install them via apt-get but could not find the package ...

searching in debian stable / unstable repos but did not get a package via "apt-cache search w32" or with keyword "windows" "codec" ...

anybody knows where to download teh Windows Codecs?

I'm running KnoppMyth R5B7 ...

Thanks to the developers, great project!
Martin

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I could be mistaken, but I believe you need to have the codecs at the time you complie mplayer. Read this thread I wrote a while ago and let us know if it worked for you. I don't have any wmv 9.0 files to test or I would myself.

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You're not... I'd appreciate it if folks thread light on this subject. The MPlayer docs is easy to read and tells all you need to know...

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

My friend had the same trouble with playing wmv9 on his Mythbox (R5C7). We installed win32codecs and as you know, mplayer won't play the wmv9. I suspect that's because the version of mplayer in knoppmyth hasn't got wmv support compiled in it. So we tried to play the wmv9 in xine and, lo & behold, it worked. So, as a workaround you can play your wmv either from the command line with xine or you can change the default video player in the video setup to xine instead of mplayer if you don't want to compile mplayer yourself, that is. I'm not sure if you lose anything important by swapping xine for mplayer to play your videos?

HTH

In R5B7 and R5C7, running mythstream-install.sh which is located under /usr/local/bin will install most of the codecs including the ones needed to play wmv8 and 9 files plus realmedia files. I haven't found something they can't play.

I've got a couple of wmv's that Mplayer will play the audio but no video ( just says loading... ) even after Mplayer upgrade and the install of mythstream. Also tried xine from a command line and it says missing msscds32.ax. Don't really know where to start to look for a solution

Any help greatly appreciated !

Did you try the process in the beginning of this thread?

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No, I used the one for C7

The best solution is to get the 'all' pack of codecs from mplayerhq.hu. The link is http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releas ... 01.tar.bz2.

From the mplayer site, "Unpack the codecs archives and put the contents in a directory where MPlayer will find them. The default directory is /usr/local/lib/codecs/ (it used to be /usr/local/lib/win32 in the past, this also works) but you can change that to something else by using the '--with-codecsdir=DIR' option when you run './configure'."

I have had to do this with each release and it works every time...I have yet to come across a file I can't play. You will probably have to create the destination directory for the codecs, but since Cecil builds mplayer with support for all codecs, once you drop them in mplayer will find and use them.

Also please note that the path the devs use, /usr/local/lib/codecs, may differ per knoppmyth's use of just /usr/lib/codecs or such.