Problems playing wmv files

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

Hello,

I just emerged kaffeine and wanted to play a wmv file.
If I do so, I get the error: Loading of player part 'XinePart' failed.
Did anybody had the same error and could tell me what's the solution?!

Cheers

thoughtform · l33t Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 600

you should probably have these in your /etc/make.conf

win32codecs wma wmf

also emerge this

[ebuild R ] media-libs/win32codecs-20050216 USE="quicktime real" 12,581 kB

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

I followed you instructions and added win32codecs wma wmf to /etc/make.conf

USE="quicktime real" emerge media-libs/win32codecs
emerge --unmerge kaffeine
emerge --newuse kaffeine

Sadly, this did change nothing :-(

thoughtform · l33t Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 600

you might need to re-emerge parts of xine or xine-libs

xanas3712 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 455

kaffeine is just the frontend, and xine-ui is just another frontend. You will want to remerge your xinelib with the correct useflag added to it.

emerging kaffeine with newuse won't do the job, you'd have to emerge --newuse -D kaffeine (to upgrade any dependencies in the chain)

Also I suggest not doing a USE="quicktime real" before the win32codecs but if you only want to add those flags to that package put

media-libs/win32codecs quicktime real in your /etc/portage/package.use

As far as WMA goes, you can probably play that with a default copy of the current xinelib (or maybe that's only the ~x86 version? Not sure since I'm using a cvs ebuild I made myself)

c707176 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 215

xanas3712,

I did what you suggested but I still get the same error: Loading of player part 'XinePart' failed. All video drivers failed to initalize!

natalizi · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

Try this topic:
https://forums.gentoo.org//viewtopic-p-4032037.html#4032037
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