[ale] .wmv on linux

[briarpatchkid at bellsouth.net (Jim Philips)]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 00:21, Tim Watts wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone have luck getting .wmv files to play? I'm using Kaffeine and have
> followed their FAQ suggestions of getting the latest mplayer codecs for
> win32 (dowloaded it from their site) and copy them to either:
>
> /usr/local/lib/[win32|codecs]
> /usr/lib/[win32|codecs]
>
> but no luck (I've tried all combinations). I always get the error: "No
> plugin found to handle this resource".
>
> I'm not married to Kaffeine. Anything that can play .wmv's (and quicktime
> would be nice too) will do. (But I don't want to use wine --  too much
> overhead).

Mplayer is the app that "just works". Get it at:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

There's no reason to even think about anything else.