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greenagain

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2005-03-17

Posts: 20

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Can't play WMVs in mplayer or xine

I used to be able to play Windows Media Video files in mplayer, but I think since I've upgraded to the newer codec pack (codecs-20050412-1), it has stopped.... or something happened anyway -- I'm not sure where I went wrong.  Anyway, both mplayer and xine crash whenever I try to play a WMV on my nvidia-based XFCE desktop (not using renderaccel or transparency).  Xine doesn't seem to give me any feedback on the crash, but from the crashing mplayer, I get this:

MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

It should be noted that I can play avis and mpegs just fine in either viewer.  Any ideas, anyone?

thanks

Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: Can't play WMVs in mplayer or xine

not sure -
i have same codecs as you. run Xine only, xfce4 with nvidia drivers, and xine runs wmv ok. - anything else u changed ? have you tried other wmv files ?

greenagain

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From: Atlanta, GA

Registered: 2005-03-17

Posts: 20

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Re: Can't play WMVs in mplayer or xine

Thanks for the feedback.  As far as I know, I haven't altered anything.  Yes, I've tried several WMVs (that used to work just fine), and none seem to work any longer.  It's strange...

Kern

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From: UK

Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 464

Re: Can't play WMVs in mplayer or xine

only other thing i can think of is try it from su - terminal. may exclude permission errors - if its that

khazdar

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From: ohio

Registered: 2003-11-06

Posts: 123

Re: Can't play WMVs in mplayer or xine

Just watch your WMV's under Windows. DRM really makes Media Player stand out from the crowd