Gustin Johnson wrote: > WMV is probably the worst format you could possibly work with.
Full acknowledge, but if you do some ironic political video project, you need to use video material from the internet. > The > Debian Multimedia folks have codecs for this format, but there may be > legal issues regarding the use of their packages. The responsibility is > yours to determine if or which formats/packages may violate local laws. In Germany this isn't a problem. It's not allowed, but tolerated by the law. German judges hate the complete computer problem, e.g. also if a lawyer wants to know something about an IP, because someone illegal has uploaded cracks. No judge will give the permission to do research about such an IP. In my circle of friends and acquaintances there are some people in jail, because they had cracks, but nobody that uploads Photoshop will run into trouble these days. In Germany it's allowed to download everything, but really criminal stuff, e.g. child pornography. It's allowed to download illegal cracks, it's not allowed to upload and use illegal cracks, but if you e.g. have a legal bought music CD and you will upload a backup of this CD, for your own security, it's allowed to do that. > Also, in my experience WMV just does not look good under Linux. Most of > the applications you would be using under Windows or OSX support other > codecs that are a better choice anyway. > > FYI, SuSe licences a number of things, which is probably why WMVs work > under SuSe. The community driven distributions will never ship with > those packages, you have to sort that out on your own. Novell (and Suse is Novell since some years) made a deal with Windows. As far as I know, Suse is the only other OS, you are allowed to have installed parallel to a Windows, without loosing Windows support. Back to my problem. Most .wmv are fine with my 64 Studio 2.1 Etch, but not all .wmv. The .wmv I've now, is fine with 64 Studio 2.1 Lenny using KMplayer. Totem and MPlayer aren't fine for my Etch, there I have to use VLC. VLC is fine with some .wmv and isn't for especially the one .wmv I want to use. I read about .wmv in the English Wiki. There ffmpeg is mentioned. Ffmpeg wasn't installed to my Etch, but after it was installed, nothing changed. VLC for Etch seems to be based on theora's mpeg-4 format, that is similar to the different .wmv codecs. Wmv seems to be a container that includesnwmv video codecs of different kinds. Maybe there is one lib for Lenny, that is able to play a format, that can't be played by older libs for Etch. The next step will be, that I will take a look at the package dependencies of VLC. Cheers, Ralf
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