Either you like it or not, wmv (Windows Media Video) files are pretty common. You probably have a couple of those laying somewhere on your harddisk. The thing is that these video files play just fine on windows but are a bit tricky on Linux. Something similar apply for other media formats like videos encoded with divx or xvid. Anyway, i knew there was a way to achieve this so i started ‘googling’ and after a short research and alot of updating i can now enjoy my WMV files as also other video formats on my Ubuntu(breezy) laptop! The following how-to is for Gnome since its the only environment i am using. (more…)