Has anyone figured out how to play a .wmv file in Intrepid KDE 4.2

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/24 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 19:31:11 Justin wrote:
>> But other videos work? VLC *should* play them. It does for me on KDE 4.2 on
>> Arch
>
> I can't even get sound with Dragon Player.  Kaffeine plays most, except .wmv.
> I can't find a player that plays .wmv.  Most of the new releases are played in
> wmv.
>
> Steven
>

I have same versions as you and I can play wmv files fine in both
Kaffeine and VLC and probebly other media players to. My guess is that
you are  missing w32codecs/w64codecs or kubuntu-restricted-extras
those packages have support for most restricted formats. To install
w32codecs (or if you have a 64-bit machine, w64codecs) you have to add
the medibuntu (http://www.medibuntu.org/) repository. Follow the
Intrepid instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu . To add
kubuntu-restricted-extras just do "sudo apt-get install
kubuntu-restricted-extras" in a shell.

/ Jonas