No Sound Using Movie Player

[obnascar]

I installed movie player with Automatix2 on my Kubuntu Dapper 6.06 system and do not have sound playing WMV files.

Does anyone have a suggestion on what I should be looking for to solve this problem ? I would appreciate it, thanks.............

[Rog131]

Re: No Sound Using Movie Player

I installed movie player

Kaffeine, mplayer, vlc .. ?

do not have sound playing WMV files.

Kubuntu Desktop Guide (http://doc.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/desktopguide/C/index.html)
tells:

Codecs for playing non-free formats are not included in Kubuntu by default. You can get support for the extra codecs by installing the libxine-extracodecs package from the Multiverse repository (see the section called “Managing Repositories”).

Do you have w32 codecs ?
RestrictedFormats
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[cantab]

Re: No Sound Using Movie Player

Try closing any other programs you may have opened that produce sound. And obviously check the volume levels and your hardware.

[obnascar]

Re: No Sound Using Movie Player

ok, I tried Kaffeine, which I should have before, and the sound works fine with that. The trouble was when I would open a WMV file it was opening it by default with Mplayer, and that is the one which did not have sound.

So all is well, I'll just make sure I do not open WMV files with Mplayer.

[craiglarry]

Re: No Sound Using Movie Player

Somewhere here in the forum someone said to download all files related to movieplayer named "bad" and "ugly." I did that and it workds quite well now.

ok, I tried Kaffeine, which I should have before, and the sound works fine with that. The trouble was when I would open a WMV file it was opening it by default with Mplayer, and that is the one which did not have sound.

So all is well, I'll just make sure I do not open WMV files with Mplayer.