I was trying to play a video with Totem in Debian Squeeze Testing and got the following error and only video played.
No packages with the requested plugins found
The requested plugins are:
Windows Media Audio 9 decoder
I have the available codecs installed. I installed Smplayer from the repos but still did not get audio. I even installed vlc player but it didn’t help either. I got the following error with mplayer command line:
MPlayer 1.0rc3-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.Playing DSC0123.WMV.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO: [WMV3] 1280×720 24bpp 1000.000 fps 5000.0 kbps (610.4 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
name:
author:
copyright:
comments:
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn’t open: /dev/mga_vid
open: No such file or directory
[MGA] Couldn’t open: /dev/mga_vid
[VO_TDFXFB] This driver only supports the 3Dfx Banshee, Voodoo3 and Voodoo 5.
[VO_3DFX] Unable to open /dev/3dfx.
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Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmv9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x83e8e2c could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmv9dmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed 🙁
Opening video decoder: [dmo] DMO video codecs
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x83e8e2c could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
Failed to create DMO filter
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmvdmod.dll.
You need to upgrade/install the binary codecs package.
Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/dload.html
VDecoder init failed 🙁
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg’s libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffwmv3] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg WMV3/WMV9)
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Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wma9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/wma9dmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wma9dmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wma9dmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x83e8e2c could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wma9dmod.dll.
ADecoder preinit failed 🙁
ADecoder init failed 🙁
Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmadmod.dll, /usr/lib/codecs/wmadmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmadmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmadmod.dll
IMediaObject ERROR: 0x83e8e2c could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)
ERROR: Could not open required DirectShow codec wmadmod.dll.
ADecoder preinit failed 🙁
ADecoder init failed 🙁
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x162.
Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
Audio: no sound
Starting playback…
VDec: vo config request – 1280 x 720 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is undefined – no prescaling applied.
VO: [xv] 1280×720 => 1280×720 Planar YV12
V: 5.5 63/ 63 28% 1% 0.0% 0 0
Exiting… (Quit)
So, I decided to add Medibuntu repo. but it did not list repo for Debian Squeeze in repos page. I found Ubuntu Wiki page on Medibuntu which has instruction on how to install it on Ubuntu, but the instruction does not work for Debian. So, I edited the command to add Lucid Lynx repos. Just run the following command as root and you will be able to add Medibuntu repos:
wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/lucid.list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
After adding the repos, just run the following command (again, as root of course) to install win32 binary codecs (works for 32 bit and 64 bit installation):
apt-get install w`if [ 'x86_64' == \`uname -m\` ]; then echo 64; else echo 32; fi`codecs
Now, you should be able to play WMV with sound using mplayer or Smplayer (Totem and Vlc still don’t work though).
