I am totally new to Linux and a friend of mine adviced me to try Kubuntu as a first choice. I am now trying to play WMV files that I got by E-mail. Any ideas what I have to do to make Totem movie player or other movie players play the files?
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Re: How can I play WMV files?
I don't use totem, but probably installing the codecs listed in the video codecs section in this thread helps.
Alternatively, install vlc (video lan client). I think the new version comes with it's own wmv support, if that's not there yet (multiverse repository), installing w32codecs should enable wmv support for vlc.
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Re: How can I play WMV files?
Originally posted by hallurgI am totally new to Linux and a friend of mine adviced me to try Kubuntu as a first choice. I am now trying to play WMV files that I got by E-mail. Any ideas what I have to do to make Totem movie player or other movie players play the files?
Easiest way to install codecs is to get Automatix2, it is a package manager that will easily install the codecs .
But I still can't get any WMV files in emails to open by a default program. ( I'm using Thunderbird ).
I have to click on the media file attachment and download it to my desktop. from the desktop it will then open with kaffeine by default.
I haven't been able to get kaffeine to open the WMV files from within thunderbird
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Re: How can I play WMV files?
Originally posted by LiamI am trying to install w32codecs
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