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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> 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?
>>
>> There is a library (libwmf) which advertises the ability to do this
>> but I don't seem to be using it in any application right now:
>>
>> * media-libs/libwmf
>>     Available versions:  0.2.8.4-r4 {{X debug doc expat xml}}
>>     Homepage:            http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
>>     Description:         library for converting WMF files
>>
>> mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ equery depends libwfm
>>  * These packages depend on libwfm:
>> mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $
>>
>>
>> Anyone doing this successfully today or what to suggest how to do this?
>
> What you need is likely a combination of 'w32codecs' (which I expect
> is an ebuild somewhere) and multilib.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have a Gentoo box I can ssh into any more, at
> least until inara and/or kaylee are fixed. But I did have this kind of
> thing working on them previously.
>
> --
> :wq
>

That's what I remembered but I don't even see that available here:

mark@c2stable ~ $ eix w32codecs
No matches found.
mark@c2stable ~ $

I was thinking maybe it got incorporated into something else.

Thanks,
Mark