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 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SrCb6-0002by-5c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:34:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC4ACE079D; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:33:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6B4E06B3 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so704496bkw.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:32:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=J3aEZU6lAs9k4O82XQM1Q5lf3YtbO2biVK2pv8dPdpM=; b=P+jEmVOKhntLI9dRCnxTOHZa9EpMQSJvB3aC6RSTJFdUWT/uaoK2AW7NuAXbPvFmlx da9CUW7LHpJdIgiBuyOK5R5vUU4zsz4jOf3PFS1J8sXuf/rkf/h/MirPE9lu+LBY16tm Tsl7NuCVgIjNQnkP8DBqiKTqy9X30KZ6tccS8Gyo4t/YIkNPPbhtBHtaqhww2tXcJfC+ ZnbBrGvfATTVgXq2ogF6uGh9E136AtHtymfZaUoSJHniY8UP7KyoX1bW3ViV4bdn/MLg wE3f3l/IgGX0Bu66j+gyFElafWg9Vh7VWFQgmMYAnGpqEf/KGlXk4s4n/EAZng8qpeKo asWg== 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 Received: by 10.204.157.156 with SMTP id b28mr1900402bkx.27.1342549938947; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:32:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <3200326.C1v6ghYEo5@localhost> <5005AB51.1030807@hadt.biz> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:32:18 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d58e1f3d-78a8-4c44-b91e-c5988dd6a322 X-Archives-Hash: 9bce509db963886bd1bdb3c93a065011 On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: >>>> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit >>>> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. >>> >>> >>> 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? -- :wq