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 1SPLN3-0001bW-8I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 22:16:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8328FE0992; Tue, 1 May 2012 22:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f52.google.com (mail-qa0-f52.google.com [209.85.216.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A97AE0732 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 22:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qabj34 with SMTP id j34so26397qab.11 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 15:14:45 -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=IEE2KZvllVZU9V8W37le8qVnqrLoaf+Cy0Z7Kk/oA+8=; b=wF8QhYU1WxKxSPwT/MupIyAUWDCRhwN1G/f2IsIN495P6YzW1kXJ/PpCwxZSBukPjC 3Na2TVPiqD/c2OKm6iKQRQq9aB8uinV+GO6qd05KZWr3RKzCs3StWQjJD90zJlBz3Sue 1Ngl6dC4zPwV5wBlqgejONvlvrRobD4IQoXkneOJOhAe3mOOdgkuxDdaL2Aawzmm9tcE PFSpo6mJocHBTOUDtQpkroxPCjNVDBw1XHaCepwvDG+cVD+G/4IZkHhLpRySKGvF4nbV oJlpb7eKyWxtjV8MBs65LMTybfBCxWZmttYgESxJylbEZpP2iKsPsnaF+KEDSIWGfvdh mbrA== 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 10.224.77.19 with SMTP id e19mr2795376qak.86.1335910485200; Tue, 01 May 2012 15:14:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.236.136 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 15:14:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com> <20120501205653.736fb202@digimed.co.uk> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 15:14:40 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: d5a1bab2-133f-4bbb-826e-014f76463a5c X-Archives-Hash: b3ec0e57d0fbb50d264129b5758a45f9 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >>>> >>>>> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) >>>>> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but >>>>> emerge won't enable the darn thing... >>>> >>>> You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs >>>> to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask >>> >>> If he is using amd64 he can't use win32codecs unless he uses a 32-bit >>> mplayer/ffmpeg. AFAIK. >> >> Wouldn't using multilib work around this? > > I think he would still need to compile a 32-bit mplayer/ffmpeg (in a > 32-bit chroot) to be able to make use of them. Multilib would let him > run 32-bit mplayer or ffmpeg binaries (which themselves would be able > to use the 32-bit DLLs). But I don't think 64-bit mplayer/ffmpeg can > call 32-bit DLLs. > > There is an amd64codecs package containing the 64-bit codecs, but it > has been masked and made obsolete by the fact that mplayer/ffmpeg can > natively do most (or all?) of those codecs these days. > And presumably for all the same reasons, if I cannot play them I cannot convert them. Ah, a world full of unspecified, proprietary vendor specific file formats hidden in old dlls... Ain't it a fine world we live in? Sort of painful to start maintaining a 32-bit chroot just to handle this sort of thing. I suspect there's some freeware for the Windows world that might allow me to do the conversion in a VM. I'll start looking for that. The web site that advertised conversion didn't work as it bombed out after an hour. Maybe there's some simple binary install I could do - Fedora or Ubuntu, etc. - but my concern there is that those binaries might not play well inside my 64-bit Gentoo environ... Thanks, Mark Thanks, Mark