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 1SrD0b-0006MN-PV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:00:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59306E07A5; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:00:20 +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 357E4E0828 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:58:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so733473bkw.40 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:58:30 -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=jF01JLdARpM3c7AwUd0aKRuWzO/2aU6fRuFlhButFjY=; b=tZCEUfWOIXg8pdUeqGUcXvmZFS64rjcW+T4iN36Ar0w35s2uF3yk+h9dIV262PHRcl UM1RBjDFb3pQNtJf7dnfAG+5z+IS/kLn3w342zPNbMRV/lxzUttUzZKHjvqCK3FwLKe/ Nzq5HW+EwYtNlB2b8CyxvgAUfOMDyESyoIan/IOQbPLlCe8ufxif3knBduPfOrkTaOxW y5rSvBHmmYQjbE5WZOguii9hci8bUESckl7Pii7T1Zo7odqU/LFq6SwYrCE6an0Avv5k MPXAPR/ropqsu15fujsz+srRPQ8q65UseHmuWqaXFM9ajoo/yWwxims+OcNPfRyMkhoA 9JDg== 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 10.204.129.4 with SMTP id m4mr12870bks.55.1342551510236; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.12 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:58:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <3200326.C1v6ghYEo5@localhost> <5005AB51.1030807@hadt.biz> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:58:30 -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: 72e499d6-c3ac-4726-bfee-cc52231fda79 X-Archives-Hash: cd570b81c4d0f855381457856081d867 On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> 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? > > Point me toward a samples archive and I'll post a file. There may be no need. Not sure. http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/750 That said, you might get in touch with mike (at) multimedia.cx, as he's had a long history of involvement. Offer the sample, mention it's a codec you need to view frequently. Perhaps ask who you might poke who'd have an interest in it. I'd probably include the above link. > > The file plays audio in mplayer. There is no video which is consistent > with what I see here. Granted, this is 64-bit and I don't have > win32codecs installed which is what plays it on the 32-bit VM. [snip] Yeah, it's MSS2. And it sounds like upstream is aware of it. -- :wq