[xine-user] Playing Windows Media Files on Ubuntu Edgy AMD 64

[Philip R. <pr...@ch...>]

Hi All!

Has anyone been able to play Windows Media Files on Ubuntu Edgy with AMD
64 architecture using xine-lib?!

I can't figure out how to do it. I'm very new to Linux. So, I apologize in
advance.

This is what I have done so far:

I downloaded, compiled, and installed xine-lib 1.1.4 successfully. I
downloaded, compiled, and installed gxine 0.5.11 successfully. I can view
avi, divx, and quicktime with absolutely no problem whatsoever.

When I try to play a WMV9 file, the video is only OK but there is NO SOUND!!!

I did this:

wget -c
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/w/w32codecs/w32codecs_20061022-0.0_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture w32codecs_20061022-0.0_i386.deb

which I got from here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/WindowsCodecs

That didn't change anything. Then on the same page, I saw a problem with
no sound:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=136306&postcount=2

I looked in catalog.cache, and this entry doesn't exist:
[/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_w32dll.so]

That other page says that:
"The Windows Codecs package cannot be used directly by the AMD64
distribution."

Is this true?

I've spent a week on this already and I still have no luck. Has anyone
gotten this to work?

-Phil