wine users - Nov 2010 - Windows Media Player Crashes

I installed windows media player 9 with winetricks.
It worked but no sound.
I tried downloading and installing WMP10 and now it will briefly open like 2
secs and then disappear. It does this every time i try to open.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling WMP9 but it also does this open and crash
now.

I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and was using wine 1.3 but went back to 1.2 thinking
that may have caused the issue.

Any one have any ideas...

Reason I'm trying to use WMP is to play blu ray files, not the disc but
files .mkv, i tried many other programs like gnome and vlc but they all play
really choppy and freeze sometimes when i'm watching 1080p movies.

Any ideas on that?

osearcy4 wrote:
> I installed windows media player 9 with winetricks.
> It worked but no sound.
> I tried downloading and installing WMP10 and now it will briefly open like
2 secs and then disappear. It does this every time i try to open.
> 
> I tried uninstalling and reinstalling WMP9 but it also does this open and
crash now.
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and was using wine 1.3 but went back to 1.2
thinking that may have caused the issue.
> 
> Any one have any ideas...
> 
> Reason I'm trying to use WMP is to play blu ray files, not the disc but
files .mkv, i tried many other programs like gnome and vlc but they all play
really choppy and freeze sometimes when i'm watching 1080p movies.
> 
> Any ideas on that?

I doubt WMP or any other player in Wine will play the files any better. Have you
asked for help on your distro's forum with getting it to work in native VLC?

If by uninstall you mean you used Wine's uninstaller, that's part of
your current problem. Wine's uninstaller just runs the app's own
uninstaller, which means lots of garbage is left behind in the registry, just
like in Windows.  Always delete the wineprefix in between tests to ensure a
clean one.

So the first thing you need to do is reinstall to a clean wineprefix in 1.3.8.
Either delete ~/.wine (if you don't have other apps you want to keep) or
install WMP9 or WMP10 to a separate wineprefix.

The most common cause of lack of sound is PulseAudio, so start by disabling it.
If the problem is with mp3 sound, try this:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8cfe86e089f8e7aaef0365abb338e3df2da7490e

If neither of the above suggestions work, post console output.

On 2010-11-30 (November, Tuesday) 08:11:27 osearcy4
wrote:
> Reason I'm trying to use WMP is to play blu ray files, not the disc but
> files .mkv, i tried many other programs like gnome and vlc but they all
> play really choppy and freeze sometimes when i'm watching 1080p movies.
	Using non-native application to solve this problem is wrong and will lead 
to problems and in most cases not perfect performance.

	What you should do is to use a native player with vdpau support for 
playing 1080p movies in Linux (and of course your video card must support 
vdpau; fortunately any modern GeForce have this support: GeForce 8 and higher). 
Personally I recommend mplayer ( http://mplayerhq.hu ), it is better to use 
latest SVN snapshot; it includes support for blu-ray disks as well in case you 
need it. Or you can use any other native Linux player with vdpau support (BTW, 
vlc does not support vdpau as far as I know so it isn't very good at playing
1080p movies; look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU#Software_supporting_VDPAU 
for a list of software capable of using vdpau).

	If you need assistance with using mplayer, you can ask me for help 
privately (because it's offtopic in this forum). If you have problem with
other
player, ask for help on their forum/mailing list. If your video card does not 
support vdpau, buy better card from NVidia; vdpau is the way to utilize GPU for 
watching movies, it gives much better performance than using CPU.