How to play WMV files?

Posted by Isaiah Bugarin on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Isaiah Bugarin
Published on 2012-09-08T14:52:29Z Indexed on 2012/09/08 15:49 UTC
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I tried playing a WMV file in VLC and it told me something along the lines of Unable to play WMV3 files. Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this. When I try to open the same file in MPlayer, it tells me an Internal data stream error occurred. I finally got it to start playing in KPlayer, but it is really sketchy; it's black and white and there's a few random blue lines down the middle of the video.

So is there any support for WMV3 files?

P.S. the same WMV file plays fine on my PC.

A different WMV file plays on Ubuntu fine.

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