If you are looking for solution how to fix Xine’s WMV playback on Ubuntu Linux (if it is broken) follow this simple tutorial:

In terminal:

cp ~/.xine/catalog.cache ~/.xine/catalog.cache.backup
gedit ~/.xine/catalog.cache

Find the following section:

[/usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.0.0/xineplug_decode_w32dll.so]
size=173768
mtime=1112804124
type=131
api=15
id=win32a
version=10000
supported_types=50593792 52428800 52822016 … (long line truncated)
decoder_priority=1

Replace (in this section only):

decoder_priority=1

With:

decoder_priority=7

That’s it!

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