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Re: Xine won't play WMV audio



That did the trick. Thanks!

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 07:11 am, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:30:32PM -0500, Matt Sheffield wrote:
> > This somewhat OT, but I am attempting to play some Windows Media files
> > from Konq with xine 0.9.13 but keep getting the message "No audio
> > plugin available to decode 'DivX audio (WMA)'.
> >
> > I understand one can use the Windows codecs so I linked my
> > /mnt/c/windows/system to /usr/lib/win32 but it still won't recognize
> > it.
>
> No.
>
> You do NOT need the Windows libraries. What you need are _special_ DLLs
> that contain additionall wrappers and stubs for the emulation layer that
> current players (libavifile for example) use to extract the code from
> the DLLs.
>
> The original windows DLLs don't help. Get w32codec.zip from the mplayer
> HQ (http://mplayer.sf.net).



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