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 1SPMvr-0006eR-6n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 23:56:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8600E0761; Tue, 1 May 2012 23:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADB57E0752 for ; Tue, 1 May 2012 23:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qcsk26 with SMTP id k26so36889qcs.40 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 16:54:34 -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=KqHjQZk0NUUT1O1BpLz2/nV+GswiEO3ZqHB2pePR6Gw=; b=T00s23mxnx0OepRBRzusRZ6TVFkPOAQDeOt65+5e1IoW28feo3OHqByPan6Wovc70D jl37fLN3yJb/u0CjwyNkoV8zVOFzWtVV9mDUgi5hMDOcuyQadkwc4NtFjjY1+VWy86S9 LUKHhQM3iB6YCkTiNO8gmz039kbVcBCra2vwjyq8VbGYH580UoCnnUKI+wfH6+VOt991 9cMxQ15RJEZ7+E58ruv7Hb8oxafKMP3fsPN0gqqT1vPeHIJ9NCFQd7G9wdl14RCNFcoY 9Bnnc8olM/eEevtk99WTclnOA2KBvzElbiiNkFm5cB5D04SjsJG9Fr0KjCttcMF5xAWS jH5g== 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 10.224.196.9 with SMTP id ee9mr7906001qab.22.1335916474234; Tue, 01 May 2012 16:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.236.136 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 16:54:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com> <20120501205653.736fb202@digimed.co.uk> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 16:54:34 -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: 1d9ff0ad-7da2-493b-82f3-0173e7d12a3f X-Archives-Hash: b1ff3419f3be7dee7ee68deca708d37e On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> 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. > > There used to be a 32-bit mplayer-bin package in portage that would > have made it simple, but that disappeared some time ago. > >> 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... > > If you can find a statically-linked 32-bit mplayer somewhere, and > emerge the win32codecs package on your machine, I think it has a > chance of working. > Actually, going back to the title of the thread, I don't need to watch wmv files in 64-bit. I really only need to _convert_ them to mp4 so that I could watch them using xine, etc. or externally on the Kindle. Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or X11, etc. could work? If I could convert the files at the command line using ffmpeg in 32-bit then that would be pretty manageable in terms of Gentoo work, assuming the ffmpeg package can be built as without any GUI stuff?