VLC won't play WMV file

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VLC won't play WMV file

Postby Whomp » 23 May 2014 13:50

I have a WMV file that will play in WMP, but not VLC. I start it with VLC and nothing happens. If I start it and quckily hit pause and look at the codecs, there are a lot of streams audio and video streams.

Audio MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 (mgpa)
MPEG-1/2 Video (mpgv)

28 streams in total.

VLC 2.1.3 Richmond
Windows 7

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Re: VLC won't play WMV file

Postby vitesse » 24 May 2014 19:10

I have a similar issue and started a topic on it a day before you did. (https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 85#p404585

The solution that was suggested for me was to use VLC 2.0.5. It seems to work on some wmv files.

You could download and use the portable (zip/7z - no install) version to test it out.


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