Problem in using VLC to play a wmv file on Linux

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Problem in using VLC to play a wmv file on Linux

Postby yinglcs » 08 Jan 2007 00:22

Hi,

I am trying to play a wmv file on Linux (fedora 5) usinv VLC.

But I get this following error, can anyone please tell me how to fix it?

$ vlc ~/downloadfiles/Teri.wmv
VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus
vlc: pcm_plug.c:384: snd_pcm_plug_change_channels: Assertion `snd_pcm_format_linear(slv->format)' failed.
Aborted

Thank you.

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Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 08 Jan 2007 01:13

To read WMV, you definitively need 0.8.6a.
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