Totem does not play .wmv files

[SteveDude]

Hello, I've been playing .wmv files in totem with no issues at all until last week. There have been 2 changes that may have affected this behavior. I upgraded my video card to an MSI N450GTS that uses NVIDIA's GeForce GTS 450 chip. I also downloaded the appropriate Linux driver from the NVIDIA website. Lastly, I'm not certain, but I believe a recent update from my Update Manager included w32 codecs. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick on kernel 2.6.35-28.49. I believe I am running totem 2.32.0-0ubuntu1. The .wmv files will play in VLC player with no issues. As a side note, Youtube plugin no longer works either.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1build2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.49-generic-pae 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: hcfpciengine nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 20 16:18:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10

[SteveDude (stevedude-)]

Running totem via terminal produced: wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
Failed creating a video decoder: could not open DMO filter from DLL wmvdmod.dll
** Message: Error: Internal data stream error.
gstasfdemux.c(1660): gst_asf_demux_loop (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstASFDemux:asfdemux0:
streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated

[gonzo.jr (gonzo-y)]

I have exactly the same problem. No changing video cards or drivers here. Probably a botched update of the W32Codecs.
VERY annoying.

Totem commandline error:

wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmvdmod.dll, /usr/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmvdmod.dll
Failed creating a video decoder: could not open DMO filter from DLL wmvdmod.dll
** Message: Error: Fout met interne gegevensstroom.
gstasfdemux.c(1660): gst_asf_demux_loop (): /GstPlayBin2:play/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20/GstASFDemux:asfdemux0:
streaming stopped, reason not-negotiated

[gonzo.jr (gonzo-y)]

you can fix it by making a symlink called 'win32' in /usr/lib/ pointing to /usr/lib/codecs
Someone fucked up with an upgrade probably someone at medibuntu?

[SteveDude (stevedude-)]

Thanks so much for the reply Gonzo. It worked perfectly!

*Steve*

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On 03/26/2011 07:49 PM, gonzo.jr wrote:
> you can fix it by making a symlink called 'win32' in /usr/lib/ pointing to /usr/lib/codecs
> Someone fucked up with an upgrade probably someone at medibuntu?
>