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Hello everybody.
I'm happy, because now I can play files encoded with wmv3 video codec. But it was not clear for me, how to achieve this. Searching forum gives me only one post. So, I think this information will be useful for users:

First of all, you will need win32codecs packet. I've found it in my local network, so I can't give link.
Extract it, and put files in the /usr/lib/win32 or /usr/local/lib/win32
Then configure you 0.8.4 or 0.8.4a vlc with the option --enable-loader and compile vlc.

P.S. For creators of vlc:
May be you will put link to win32codecs packet here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html ?
And I think it would be useful to add to the command line --enable-loader here:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/nix-compile.html

This is good information, it explains why I can't play some WMV files.

Can anyone shed light on a different method of incorporating the Win32 codecs, other than recompiling? The actual files are in /usr/lib/win32. I've installed the Debian version VLC (on Ubuntu), and I'd rather not muck around with it until I learn a bit more about this OS (day 2, so far ).

Thanks,

Trix