[PLUG] Unable to play WMV files.

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 08/06/2009 12:51 PM, vaibhav wrote:
> Hello Vishal,
>                     I tried installing xine using following:
> " yum install xine
>        xine-lib-extras-freeworld
>        gstreamer-plugins-ugly
>        gstreamer-plugins-bad
>        gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras
>        gstreamer-ffmpeg"
> 
> It installed xine successfully. But while playing .wmv file it give
> following error:
> " The stream 'file://root/Desktop/abc/xyz.wmv used and unsupported codec:
> Video codec: Unavailable (MSS2)
>   Start playback anyway?  yes  no"
> 
> could this be because of missing base-plugins and/or good-plugins ?

No. They are installed by default. You can try play other media files to
see if it is a generic problem or specific to that file.

Rahul