Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@hadt.biz> wrote:
>>>> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit
>>>> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit.
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>> Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have
>>> trouble with. They play fine in 32-bit Gentoo.
>>>
>> Mark, was thinking of you and your videos that don't play on 64bit when
>> I read Volkers statement :)
>> ffmpeg know lots of shit, but not all if it.
>>
>
> Yeah, that's the truth. I suspect this specific case just lacks a
> smart developer who wants to figure it all out and do the work to make
> an Open Source codec that plays the file type, but maybe there's
> patents and other junk that gets in the way.

It's possible they just don't have a sample to work with. If you can
send it to them, they can at least add it to their samples archives.


>
> And really, as I use a lot of VM's all day long, it doesn't seem
> overly important any more. It's trivial to just run a Windows VM to
> play wmv files whereas finding someone in the Linux world who actually
> cares about supporting and promoting the wmv format seems like a waste
> of my time and theirs. They can work on better things.

There are containers and codecs. Most containers are supported,
leaving the codecs.

Can you post the output of 'mplayer -identify $filename' on that file?

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