How to Play WMV video files with sound based on the 0x162 audio codec

[FrogDemon]

Ok, I found that Ubuntu WILL play wmv files, however, for some reason, I was having issues with NO sound. So I did a search and found the following in another thread about:

Source:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=911880 Reply #9

To be able to play wmv video files that is using the sound codec 0x162 with mplayer. This has only been tested on x86 Ubuntu version. I can't make any promises if this will work for 64-bit Ubuntu version.
I assume you have mplayer installed and either w32codecs or w64codecs installed depending on your architecture. For more info regarding this, goto http://www.medibuntu.org/ and install necessary packages.


First make sure you have rpm installed

 sudo apt-get install rpm

Next get the 2 mplayer-codec rpm packages depending on architecture.

For x86 version

 wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...022-1.i386.rpm

 wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...022-1.i386.rpm

For 64-bit version

 wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...2-1.x86_64.rpm

 wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...2-1.x86_64.rpm

Finally, install the audio mplayer rpm packages depending on architecture

For x86 version

 sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm

 sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm

For 64-bit version

sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.x86_64.rpm

I hope this helps others experiencing the same issues.