[gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

[gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

[Daniel Quinn]

I have 3 Sheevaplugs (http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp) which 
all run ARM cpus.  For the most part I've had very few problems setting these 
up to run Gentoo but now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to record 
CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this problem:

  Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported

I can only assume that this is due to the fact that mplayer won't emerge with 
the win32codecs USE flag, probably relating the architecture I'm using.  Isn't 
there a way to make this work?  Emulate an x86 space or something?  I'm rather 
new at working across architectures so I'm kinda poking around in the dark 
here.

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 21:28:10 +0000, Daniel Quinn
<expendable.0@danielquinn.org> wrote:
> I have 3 Sheevaplugs (http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp)
> which 
> all run ARM cpus.  For the most part I've had very few problems setting
> these 
> up to run Gentoo but now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to
> record 
> CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this problem:
> 
>   Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
> 
> I can only assume that this is due to the fact that mplayer won't emerge
> with 
> the win32codecs USE flag, probably relating the architecture I'm using. 
> Isn't 
> there a way to make this work?  Emulate an x86 space or something?  I'm
> rather 
> new at working across architectures so I'm kinda poking around in the
dark 
> here.

I don't think so.

win32codecs install some dll files which come precompiled from
windows. There's no way to change that, they are dll's compiled
for x86. They work only for that arch. That's why chosing
closed formats is *never* a good idea.

Your best bet is the try the absolute latest ffmpeg and pray that
they have included support for the concrete format you need.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

[Stroller]

On 2 Sep 2009, at 22:28, Daniel Quinn wrote:
> ... now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to record
> CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this problem:
>
>  Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported


Are you able to play this on an x86 Linux box?

If not, or if you're unable to try, it might well be worth posting the  
URL to see if anyone else is able to do so. You may just find that  
someone else is able to report success of a configuration or software  
that you hadn't considered.

Stroller.