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 1SPI5t-0004I4-Aq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 18:46:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11AC4E074E; Tue, 1 May 2012 18:45:27 +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 BF383E0A9E for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 18:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so3121080bkc.40 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:24:08 -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=chuOpywufRP9BwVJ21eGpMdc/QoasbMoi+CNVRNCxz0=; b=ySAhMAPZb7dHN3c5bQdqkrgu6py7OHacb07NXjP1gHSp4qv/WebMxXr3jp/hV9aX/+ th5my2BLPWn8hH1SkvZvMfAqG0gns4KMlXKudxIJ8QCgvORw+CpTW8ztwYOofj0IMu8U UItsU84pb529wdwt5tZAGMtEcgg1Cspb3q0uu38JfzVuFkbWh6qt3KMe1WgKpKsEerCu uNilAB1+kM9WUgQT3mafE4/ypGYGJrMjKuKoUu2epoP+KF11XTFEEcQAt5XqcobfYbEX kHx9/xriAkGB9zRj62K0BI+4TBEyRnxmOUQAUvUG1ClvFPAvsie44yr92am/6O49m0an Xq0g== 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 10.204.129.87 with SMTP id n23mr8624436bks.19.1335896648886; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:24:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.153.213 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 11:24:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 14:24:08 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c33c2a42-aa38-4070-b18f-5aa04d44eb89 X-Archives-Hash: 627b73a61749e267257c7f7f5612f2e3 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky 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)? -- :wq