Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> I Cannot play the files on my Gentoo box using Linux. No player that
> I've tried so far - xine, mplayer, dragon player in KDE - none of them
> play these files. However I can play the files within a Win7 VM on
> this machine which is what I've been doing this morning so far. I sort
> of doubt the DRM restriction on this stuff. The web site asks
> subscribers not to farward these to their friends, etc., and says
> subscribers are on the honor system. They appears to be simple
> recordings of of his screen and audio coming from an inexpensive mic.
> Nothing more.
>
> I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't
> even know what format they'd be in.

What do you get if you try 'midentify' (from mplayer) or 'midentify2'
(from mplayer2)?

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