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Generally users shy away from Linux because they have to install packages even for basic tasks of playing music. In this post let us see how to play the WMV files in Ubuntu.

You need to download the codecs for the player to play WMV files.

No such file `all-20060622.tar.bz2′.

• Open your Terminal/Konsole and copy and paste

wget ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20060611.tar.bz2

( If you get No such file `all-20060622.tar.bz2' error then visit the

site to download the latest version.)

• Extract the file using

tar xvjf all-20060611.tar.bz2

(Replace the file name with what you downloaded)

• Open the directory with

cd all-20060611

• Create a directory win32 in /usr/lib/

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/win32

(Do not worry if you get an error message here, the directory might already exist.)

• Copy the codecs files

sudo cp * /usr/lib/win32

Now you are all set to play WMV files in Ubuntu.. Enjoy yourself