From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-137981-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1SPVR5-0003hR-BQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 09:01:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 411AAE08FC; Wed, 2 May 2012 09:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06D02E08B5 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 2 May 2012 08:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-2.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.187]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0M3E0099H0YXRP30@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 10:59:21 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,515,1330902000"; d="scan'208";a="87351124" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-2.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 02 May 2012 10:59:21 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id q428xL6V027735 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 02 May 2012 10:59:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4082E21EE for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 02 May 2012 10:59:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 10:59:20 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <CAK2H+edbxxLUsaky2-nmPPeMychQ8O83DkMkOkB5mnQkYPAP1w@mail.gmail.com> <4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com> <CAK2H+ecDYhkvtrLAeg5y6HK+GgkBMkko8A2QeawA5C8-ZshQxA@mail.gmail.com> <CAK2H+efHNE=vU55adHg8cZad11RpDnBi-cT=Ew2vv4EtZfx5Pw@mail.gmail.com> <CA+czFiCjCQ4mGhCvqp9h88XM-BX+JuLMpd8thvpgO0_NtAu4Nw@mail.gmail.com> <CAK2H+edL_T87x01MpxOk_HnrjjfrnudpbsdHnac37K=Vh+UtuQ@mail.gmail.com> <20120501205653.736fb202@digimed.co.uk> <CAEH5T2M5Or4LVhYxe5WnUk77NxQ2vv6vMK2Wm5P1YPrXf1hKTg@mail.gmail.com> <CA+czFiDWwxGjwy1QNKibxHXZcz8toewh4c7M4-S=p8FyhiceQg@mail.gmail.com> <CAEH5T2Nrj0-A1HMN235x_PBrY2sy3yNtFrB=QBAraV=rkR3B0w@mail.gmail.com> <CAK2H+edj9s=GV1c_ZoUpJr7y3RejzZH7=EVuQYF=GLU2ecVc9Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAEH5T2O_c7=h_CywE3nbqmX1G3qL4Zgiir6y+SuxchxOxivOPQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAK2H+edt+7P-OVTSdRqtCXGb2v5pAAy5rd0=55CsbtCiHTsZ+w@mail.gmail.com> <CA+czFiA_9iGp8O5rwSSKv-jL=hv8QV3znHT-YAyyK+Xo=AO=SA@mail.gmail.com> <CAK2H+efFm0OsG9kW47jsogfn1uZ-yYDk6Zvm9og9pN86ygEyvw@mail.gmail.com> In-reply-to: <CAK2H+efFm0OsG9kW47jsogfn1uZ-yYDk6Zvm9og9pN86ygEyvw@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.90-18-g76680d4 Message-id: <1335949160.30217.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 32b399c9-9352-4c2d-a966-b6c186773680 X-Archives-Hash: f940d829cfd5a2479cb6a57edf8451fa On 05/02/2012 02:51:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman > >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht > <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman > >>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman > >>>>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick > <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > >>>>>>>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system > anyway) > >>>>>>>>> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to > package.use but > >>>>>>>>> emerge won't enable the darn thing... > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs > >>>>>>>> to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> If he is using amd64 he can't use win32codecs unless he uses > a 32-bit > >>>>>>> mplayer/ffmpeg. AFAIK. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Wouldn't using multilib work around this? > >>>>> > >>>>> I think he would still need to compile a 32-bit mplayer/ffmpeg > (in a > >>>>> 32-bit chroot) to be able to make use of them. Multilib would > let him > >>>>> run 32-bit mplayer or ffmpeg binaries (which themselves would > be able > >>>>> to use the 32-bit DLLs). But I don't think 64-bit > mplayer/ffmpeg can > >>>>> call 32-bit DLLs. > >>>>> > >>>>> There is an amd64codecs package containing the 64-bit codecs, > but it > >>>>> has been masked and made obsolete by the fact that > mplayer/ffmpeg can > >>>>> natively do most (or all?) of those codecs these days. > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> And presumably for all the same reasons, if I cannot play them I > >>>> cannot convert them. > >>>> > >>>> Ah, a world full of unspecified, proprietary vendor specific file > >>>> formats hidden in old dlls... Ain't it a fine world we live in? > >>>> > >>>> Sort of painful to start maintaining a 32-bit chroot just to > handle > >>>> this sort of thing. I suspect there's some freeware for the > Windows > >>>> world that might allow me to do the conversion in a VM. I'll > start > >>>> looking for that. The web site that advertised conversion didn't > work > >>>> as it bombed out after an hour. > >>> > >>> There used to be a 32-bit mplayer-bin package in portage that > would > >>> have made it simple, but that disappeared some time ago. > >>> > >>>> Maybe there's some simple binary install I could do - Fedora or > >>>> Ubuntu, etc. - but my concern there is that those binaries might > not > >>>> play well inside my 64-bit Gentoo environ... > >>> > >>> If you can find a statically-linked 32-bit mplayer somewhere, and > >>> emerge the win32codecs package on your machine, I think it has a > >>> chance of working. > >>> > >> > >> Actually, going back to the title of the thread, I don't need to > watch > >> wmv files in 64-bit. I really only need to _convert_ them to mp4 so > >> that I could watch them using xine, etc. or externa > lly on the Kindle. > >> > >> Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or > X11, > >> etc. could work? If I could convert the files at the command line > >> using ffmpeg in 32-bit then that would be pretty manageable in > terms > >> of Gentoo work, assuming the ffmpeg package can be built as without > >> any GUI stuff? > > > > I was just thinking that. I played with a chroot briefly just before > > inara and kaylee bit it, and it seemed pretty trivial. Were it me, > > that'd be the next thing I'd try. (But then, compiling is cheap for > > me) > > > > I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot. > That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a > different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc. > > Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit > install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt > it's any big deal. No idea how the 32-bit VM really does 32-bit when > it's running on a 64-bit processor that's doing 64-bit all the time > but I guess that's why we pay these Intel & Oracle people the big > bucks, right? ;-) > > And if I end up needing X in the 32-bit environment for some reason it > will be easy to add that down the road. > > It's a real drag about the hassles your machines have been going > through. I hope you get by that soon. > I'd use a SystemRescueCD image (it's an up-to-date Gentoo 32 bit system) Helmut.