Re: Viewing a .wmv file

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:

|> I seem to be having some trouble getting a .wmv file to come correctly.  I am
|> using the unstable distribution and have installed xine-ui and libxine1. 
|> Basically, I need to be able to play this becuase my university offers distance
|> classes (some of which I need to take) and they only make them available in
|> Windows Media format.  As it stands now, I can open the file with xine and I
|> get audio but no picture.

Have you installed the required codecs tarball? I believe you have to
install them separately in /usr/lib/win32 (that's where Xine expects
to find them). You can get the tarball from the mplayer site among
other places,

Jim