It plays here on Archlinux with mplayer. Excerpts below.
[~] $ mplayer http://www.windriders.co.uk/video/eastbourne2007small.wmv
MPlayer SVN-r32663-4.5.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WVP2] 800x600 24bpp 1000.000 fps 31.8 kbps ( 3.9 kbyte/s)
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
VO: [xv] 800x600 => 800x600 Planar YV12
Selected video codec: [wmvadmo] vfm: dmo (Windows Media Video Adv DMO)
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 105.3 kbit/7.46% (ratio: 13159->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
If it's any use, the codec comes from:
[~] $ pacman -Qi codecs
Name : codecs
Version : 20100303-4
URL : http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
Licences : unknown
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : libstdc++5
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Conflicts With : codecs-extra
Replaces : codecs-extra
Installed Size : 48692.00 K
Packager : Unknown Packager
Architecture : i686
Build Date : Fri 05 Nov 2010 11:25:11 GMT
Install Date : Fri 05 Nov 2010 11:48:31 GMT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : Non-linux native codec pack.
On 30/12/10 13:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
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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