Wmv And Mplayer

[bam]

anyone got wmv files to play under stock rom with mplayer? i know there are codecs that allow playing of these files under linux, but are they processor specific(the codecs)?

[Hrw]

It depends as there are few versions of Windows Media Video - some (older ones) has opensource codecs, some can only be played with x86 win32 codecs.

[bam]

hmmm, so its probably just best to re-encode on my debian box. just curious if there was any really 'absolute' answer.

[brashley46]

hmmm, so its probably just best to re-encode on my debian box. just curious if there was any really 'absolute' answer.
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What are you using to re-encode? I have not been able to find anything to change .wmv to, say, .mpg.

[Tom61]

hmmm, so its probably just best to re-encode on my debian box. just curious if there was any really 'absolute' answer.
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What are you using to re-encode? I have not been able to find anything to change .wmv to, say, .mpg.
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Mencoder (comes with mplayer) will do it if you have the codec to play it under mplayer, once you figure out its syntax.

[Meanie]

hmmm, so its probably just best to re-encode on my debian box. just curious if there was any really 'absolute' answer.
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What are you using to re-encode? I have not been able to find anything to change .wmv to, say, .mpg.
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Mencoder (comes with mplayer) will do it if you have the codec to play it under mplayer, once you figure out its syntax.
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and if you use Windows, TMPEGEnc is a great freeware. it doesn't show wmv files by default as supported file format but just select all files to see them listed and convert anyway. alternatively, eovideo (commercial software) does a pretty good job also in converting almost any file formats (including real media).

[brashley46]

hmmm, so its probably just best to re-encode on my debian box. just curious if there was any really 'absolute' answer.
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What are you using to re-encode? I have not been able to find anything to change .wmv to, say, .mpg.
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Mencoder (comes with mplayer) will do it if you have the codec to play it under mplayer, once you figure out its syntax.
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and if you use Windows, TMPEGEnc is a great freeware. it doesn't show wmv files by default as supported file format but just select all files to see them listed and convert anyway. alternatively, eovideo (commercial software) does a pretty good job also in converting almost any file formats (including real media).
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Thanks, guys. My Debian-based distro (XandrOS) doesn't play well with mencoder - dependency hell. TMPGenc looks good, though, I'll try it on my Windoze box.

[jfv]

I've recently installed the latest debian stable on one my boxes and installing mencoder was just a matter of adding the right feed (www.debian-multimedia.org) and doing apt-get install mencoder.

Felipe

[Tom61]

Thanks, guys. My Debian-based distro (XandrOS) doesn't play well with mencoder - dependency hell. TMPGenc looks good, though, I'll try it on my Windoze box.
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For that type of situation, just grab the source tarball off [a href=\"http://www.mplayerhq.hu/]http://www.mplayerhq.hu/[/url] and compile it.

[Da_Blitz]

if i remeber correctlly ffmpeg worked with wmv v1-2 (aka the 'old stuff') and just recentlly added support for wmv3 which is what most moives are distributed as nowdays and is the one wthat works with DRM if you enable it.

i guess you figured out that if its DRM'd then you cant use the spiffy new wmv v3 support in ffmpeg.

encodingmplayer by hand is great and easy to do, i do it for every major distro i use rather than stick with what the distro supplies. the only thing you should need are the alsa headers (unless you use a 2.4 kernel) and the fbdev kernels for the command line (ie no X/qutopia) if you want X and qutopia then grab X11-dev and Xv-dev as well as the qutopia headers (i assume the are qt-dev)

make sure you grab the svn version and do it with svn co <addr> as it will also grab the latest ffmpeg as well