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 1SPIVM-0008Fy-Gf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 19:12:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 254D3E0B19; Tue, 1 May 2012 19:12:13 +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 B77A4E0996 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 19:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so3149399bkc.40 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 12:08:14 -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=vrKjLUYi0ML9PrAj6eJpsoPJgazQLDDkiWAWyq/2YMA=; b=hi3yVM/kqFLibpnPJX2L7ijVSiSU8D/D7gmiMCRdGgoBUCOzo0LYKsy44kHerHW19p GlD9n5bfnMGhV6kFxfYkXyl9GVoFZY/EE0ISwLBYxDYyrBCmAQ3CLKv/G5Bmv8n3RJpH Ygz8FH5j05zk4NiqYNtS9lzRdA7UtvRLrJ/ur0BZi6YQ6QKhKEFDytvuz0CWm4kM5Cg6 vajRRjeQPWzP1WAPTpp4yxGvruI9vbemvebtKSrcvft96kP/FZmeCHYjQQ+h+Vq9i4xs I6Y7q95fDSsCmmeoDNRpeFhMaTcfX/scwzj8RtITOe8Ma5AoUkN5OWLXhEI6253xMw9M vW6Q== 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 n23mr8667113bks.19.1335899294868; Tue, 01 May 2012 12:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.153.213 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 12:08:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:08:14 -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: 02ea3251-3805-4845-8429-75e6acf216ca X-Archives-Hash: 770fd916f2bf3e218189aae0f2020ee9 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >>> 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. > > Expanding a bit I copied one of the files to a test directory to play > with. It seems smplayer will actually play the audio but won't display > video. midentify gives some data. When I look at the ffmpeg info it > seems to me it's also having trouble with the video portion. At least > it seems to understand the audio portion. > > I'm guessing the pivot point here is the video format code: > > ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2 > > Cheers, > Mark > > mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ midentify Test1.wmv > ID_AUDIO_ID=1 > ID_VIDEO_ID=2 > ID_FILENAME=Test1.wmv > ID_DEMUXER=asf > ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2 > ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=4971000 > ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1366 > ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=740 > ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000 > ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000 > ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=353 > ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0 > ID_AUDIO_RATE=0 > ID_AUDIO_NCH=0 > ID_START_TIME=5.00 > ID_LENGTH=9130.09 > ID_SEEKABLE=1 > ID_CHAPTERS=0 > ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=20008 > ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100 > ID_AUDIO_NCH=1 > ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffwmav2 > ID_EXIT=EOF > mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ http://wiki.debian.org/WindowsMediaVideo Videos with the MSS2 FOURCC should be playable with the w32codecs package. -- :wq