>> And really, as I use a lot of VM's all day long, it doesn't seem >> overly important any more. It's trivial to just run a Windows VM to >> play wmv files whereas finding someone in the Linux world who actually >> cares about supporting and promoting the wmv format seems like a waste >> of my time and theirs. They can work on better things. > > There are containers and codecs. Most containers are supported, > leaving the codecs. > > Can you post the output of 'mplayer -identify $filename' on that file? >
If memory serves me right it was MSS2 which requires a 32bit mplayer build with the win32codecs use flag enabled.