Whenever I try to play a movie on default Ubuntu movie player it asks me to install some codecs, but when I click "install" it doesn't do anything, and when I try to play it again the action just repeats itself. Whenever I try to play the movie with VLC player (which under Windows can play all the .wmv movies without any problem) it just gets messy. The movie is being played but there are some major issues with sound and pictures (green surface, large pictures, freezing black screens). Any way to fix it on ubuntu 16?
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I don't know how universal it is, but using a suggestion by doug I went to vlc > Tools > Preferences > Input/Codecs & set Hardware-accelerated decoding and then selected VDPAU video decoder. Under this option all my .wmv files work just perfectly, are very smooth and in general all the video files load faster.