Hi,
Robert Bronsdon wrote:
> > http://www.windriders.co.uk/video/eastbourne2007small.wmv
>
> I can confirm the problem is a lack of video. I can play other .wmv
> files fine but this one just has sound.
It plays fine here with mplayer from Medibuntu on Ubuntu 8.04.
$ apt-cache policy mplayer
mplayer:
Installed: 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13.1+medibuntu1
Candidate: 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13.1+medibuntu1
Version table:
*** 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13.1+medibuntu1 0
500 http://packages.medibuntu.org hardy/non-free Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13.1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
$
> If you hunt through the below you'll notice mplayer doesn't even look
> for a video codec. It just reports no video stream.
No, I don't think that's true...
> $ mplayer eastbourne2007small.wmv
[snip]
> Playing eastbourne2007small.wmv.
> ASF file format detected.
[snip]
> Requested video codec family [wmvadmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
The output here includes
Selected video codec: [wmvadmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video Adv
DMO)
So we both agree wmvadmo is desirable but you, and possibly OP Tim,
don't have it. I suspect the problem is down to Debian not shipping a
binary that can cope with the format, presumably because of freeness
issues. Perhaps there's a Medibuntu for Debian, e.g.
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
Cheers,
Ralph.
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