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Howto Play .wmv Files on Fedora 16 / 15 / 14

Updated by JR on Dec 10, 2011 in Desktop Guides, Featured, Fedora, Linux, Windows | 11 comments

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This is quick guide, howto play .vmw (Windows Media Video) on Fedora 16, Fedora 15 and Fedora 14.

Howto Play .wmv Files on Fedora 16 / 15 / 14

1. Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

3. Add RPMFusion Repositories (Free and Non-Free)

32-bit and 64-bit

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

3. Install needed packages

yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg

Note: I tested this with Totem Movie Player, MPlayer and VLC
If you don’t have Totem, MPlayer or VLC already then you could install them as follows:

Install Totem Movie Player

yum install totem

Install MPlayer

yum install mplayer

Install VLC

yum install vlc

4. Play .wmv Files

Play with Totem Movie Player

totem /path/to/windows-media-video.wmv

Play with MPlayer

mplayer /path/to/windows-media-video.wmv

Play with MPlayer

vlc /path/to/windows-media-video.wmv

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11 Comments

Mahesh / March 3, 2011

Hi!!!!!!
I tried it………….all the packages were already installed……. but still i m not able to play the .wmv files….please help!!!!!!!!

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- JR / March 3, 2011
  
  Hi Mahesh,
  
  Sounds strange, because I tested this almost just installed box.
  
  What player you use?
  Do you have tried multiple .wmv files from variable sources?
  
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Dusan / March 30, 2011

I installed it but no success, got this:
mplayer: error while loading shared libraries: libglut.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

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- JR / March 31, 2011
  
  Hi Dusan,
  
  Try following:
  
  yum install freeglut
  
  Then try again.
  
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Anirban / August 5, 2011

Thank you JR.

It works realy nice…

for those who faild to install properly try this for Fedora 15/14/13(ref@vlc website):-
$> su -
#> rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
#> yum install vlc
#> yum install mozilla-vlc (optional)

then do this(ref@JR):

#>yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg

I hope it helps.

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- JR / August 6, 2011
  
  Hi Anirban,
  
  Nice to hear that you got it working and nice addition from vlc website…thanks! :)
  
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Jawad / December 10, 2011

i am also unable to install gstreamer… failed because of libcdio.so.10 package, tried yum whatprovides libcdio.so.10 butt couldnt find anything, searched alot but didnt find any solution for it. HELP

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- JR / December 10, 2011
  
  Hi Jawad,
  
  I updated this guide (also Fedora 16 compatible), so try again with updated guide… ;)
  
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james / January 19, 2012

Worked for me, thanks. Runs on Fedora 16

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bintu / January 23, 2012

it was very much helpful

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Deepak Kumar / April 21, 2012

Hi,
Its Great. I installed vlc and mplayer in Fedora 16, and its working fine.

Thanks

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