Looking at answers to how to play WMV files on Ubuntu 14.04, it seems that the correct answer is to install ubuntu-restricted-extras. (At the moment, I get the same error as others, i.e. Segmentation fault (core dumped) with both VLC and Totem.)
However, when I want to install ubuntu-restricted-extras, APT wants to remove a number of other packages. I issue the following command.
sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras
I get the following messages about removal.
The following packages will be REMOVED
audacity frei0r-plugins gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
handbrake-gtk libavcodec54 libavdevice53 libavfilter3 libavformat54
libchromaprint-tools libmlt++3 libmlt6 libopencv-contrib2.4
libopencv-highgui2.4 libopencv-legacy2.4 libopencv-objdetect2.4 melt
openshot picard python-mlt simplescreenrecorder vlc vlc-nox
vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba
Why would it want to remove Audacity, Handbrake, Openshot, Simple Screen Recorder, VLC and others?
Or, better, is there a way to be able to view WMV videos without removing those packages?
In case it is of any relevance, I notice that I have ubuntu-restricted-addons installed.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit.
Thank you.
EDIT
Lines from /var/log/syslog for running VLC and Totem follow. In both cases, only one line was written.
Running VLC:
Jun 10 20:19:15 Daisy kernel: [ 1087.866980] vlc[7336]: segfault at 977 ip 00007feef9cd553b sp 00007feec82eed70 error 4 in libvlccore.so.8.0.0[7feef9c9a000+f8000]
Running Totem:
Jun 10 20:27:11 Daisy kernel: [ 1563.645868] multiqueue0:src[9097]: segfault at 200000000 ip 00007f0fc01adf12 sp 00007f0fb77fc660 error 6 in libgstlibav.so[7f0fc0194000+35000]
Try installing
libavcodecsAlso, just to be sure you haven't got anything weird going on, run
sudo apt-get -f installandsudo apt-get check