How to play Wmv9 files on AMD64 Ubuntu

Download the package

Dapper Users

http://folk.ntnu.no/grannas/debs/mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb

Edgy Users

http://folk.ntnu.no/grannas/debs/mplayer32_20070130-1_amd64.deb

Install the package Using the following commands

Dapper Users

sudo dpkg -i mplayer32_1.0pre7-1_amd64.deb

Edgy Users

sudo dpkg -i mplayer32_20070130-1_amd64.deb

Fetch the Win32 codecs from http://www.people.virginia.edu/~drf8f/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2

Unpack it and install to /usr/lib/win32.

tar -jxvf essential-20060501.tar.bz2

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32

sudo cp essential-20060501/* /usr/lib/win32/

Use mplayer32 to play wmv9 files (but it can also be used for other files as well )

If you want a 32 bit mencoder as well, you can download it from here

http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~grannas/debs/mencoder32 and put it into /usr/bin/ .

If you want to use the gmplayer gui, rather than the command-line do the following:

sudo rm /usr/bin/gmplayer
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mplayer32 /usr/bin/gmplayer

This operation has to be done manually as the gmplayer file is "owned" by the original mplayer package.