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 ) id 1SPHL6-0006dL-34 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 17:58:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23B4DE0653; Tue, 1 May 2012 17:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F583E08A5 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 17:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.17.29.6] (unknown [65.213.236.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 292AD37B31 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 13:56:08 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=orlitzky.com; s=mail2; t=1335894968; bh=PFLG4KI8itE41T4Kf3iokDWxfN97JkwIM34S4CJuA+A=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BIFrTPX9l72sYZM3IIX3L9xMC75svftNrwkhkJUHOtUgOi/+taLLlNxyZARuVKZkM INhf2VdMrV65iAnBRF/CsR8+Zqwa5tp2KAlHWBZwKPFxvPXxVYKAX88WaJyybxG4Ns QHPYRjf1ieSl3z6lK2j3qbmDC6cTwnzQ2HmNChXs= Message-ID: <4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 13:56:07 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120416 Thunderbird/10.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 247789fe-61fe-4a1d-98e3-d1c362284ea9 X-Archives-Hash: 694c70b53f19d9900a5db3eec55674ae On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So > far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it > doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of > comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit > codecs are installed. I'm running 64-bit and don't see what flags I > might need to set to get that? > Can you play the WMV? The "wmv" extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF container can have DRM. I see them every once in a while, and ffmpeg/mplayer have no idea what to do with them.