WMV9 Codec for linux?

[Andrew Konosky]

Erik Kjær Pedersen wrote:

>Lørdag 27 november 2004 14:58 skrev Andrew Konosky:
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>>Gianluca La Marca wrote:
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>>>Maybe here:
>>>http://yarrow.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1398
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>>>On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 12:05 -0600, Andrew Konosky wrote:
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>>>>Since the new WMV9 codec has come out, I have been unable to view a lot
>>>>of stuff. Where can I get codec for mplayer or xine to play the WMV9
>>>>video streams?
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>>[andrew at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa|grep xine-lib
>>xine-lib-1.0.0-0.15.rc6a.1.fc3.rf
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>>I have the package installed but xine still cannot play WMV9 videos. It
>>says it is an unsupported stream.
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>get essentials from mplayers homepage
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Well I download the essentials package and put the codecs in 
/usr/local/lib/codecs as per Mplayer instructions, and I modified my 
xine config to go to that folder for win32 codecs as well. Now both 
players crash when I try to play a WMV9 video...