From plug-mail  Thu Aug 06 07:38:11 2009
From: Vishal Rao <vishalrao () gmail ! com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:38:11 +0000
To: plug-mail
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Unable to play WMV files.
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM, vaibhav <vaibhav.khante@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Vishal,
>                     I tried installing xine using following:
> " yum install xine
>        xine-lib-extras-freeworld
>        gstreamer-plugins-ugly
>        gstreamer-plugins-bad
>        gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras
>        gstreamer-ffmpeg"
>
> It installed xine successfully. But while playing .wmv file it give
> following error:
> " The stream 'file://root/Desktop/abc/xyz.wmv used and unsupported codec:
> Video codec: Unavailable (MSS2)
>   Start playback anyway?  yes  no"
>
> could this be because of missing base-plugins and/or good-plugins ?
>
> --Regards
> Vaibhav
>

what about another package i recall , something named like "w32codecs" or
"win32codec" ? if you have 64 bit linux then it might be w64codecs or
win64codecs, try that?
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