Can't play WMV in Kaffeine

[Paul Smith]

On 1/29/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Kaffiene complains about needing wmvdmod, but I see nothing for it in yum:
> > ...
> > > Where does one aquire this?
> >
> > wmv is a nonfree format, unsupported by Fedora.
> >
> > You can grab xine-lib-extras-nonfree from rpm.livna.org that provides
> > those bits.
>
> Turns out it's xine-lib-extras-nonfree.i386 and it's already
> installed. What's the next plan of action?
>
> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/146/da_brat.html
> http://dotancohen.com/howto/firefox_password_manager.php

I remember to have a similar problem, and -- if am recalling it well
-- I solved it with making a symbolic link to the codecs of mplayer.
Try to check where xine is trying to locate the codec for wmv and then
try to a make symbolic link in order to make it accessible to xine.

Paul


Paul