I recently installed ffmpeg on Ubuntu 14.04 to do some video editing because avconv didn't have some options that I wanted or knew about. After installing ffmpeg, VLC seems to be unable to play wmv video files. VLC will open then immediately close. No crash report pops up. I also tried playing the files in totem but that also does not work. The files are not corrupted as they played fine before installing ffmpeg. I uninstalled ffmpeg and removed the orphaned applications but VLC still won't play wmvs. I have ubuntu-restricted-extras
installed but wmv files still won't play.