Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:55, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > TOP-POSTED about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?': > >> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 19:29 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 06:25, "Christoph Mende" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play >>> WMV?': >>> >>>> Latest stable version of ffmpeg is supposed to support wmv. >>>> >>> Yeah, I don't have any -bin packages installed on ~amd64 and I can >>> play some WMVs. >>> >> There are different versions of wmv. Last time I checked (on Ubuntu >> atleast), the 64 bit of the w32codecs didn't work for WMV 9. The 32 bit >> one seems to work perfectly though. You also have to have 32-bit >> mplayer. >> > > Please don't top-post. > > Yeah, it really doesn't matter to me when proprietary formats aren't > available. When I moved to amd64, I happily shed both flash and WMVs. > (At the time I don't believe either firefox-bin or mplayer-bin was > available.) I figure if it's not important enough for the > producer/distributor to use accessible formats (Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, > Theora, etc.) it's not important enough for me to spend time watching. > > *Insert Duncan's .sig here* > > Well, I'm sorry but I disagree. Let's not go fanatic about any ideas. Free software and open source are the greatest thing in the IT world (my personal opinion), but should I not use NVidia's drivers only because they are not GPLed? I would say anyone who uses software emulation instead of hardware acceleration only because of the license is a fanatic.
I noticed that there is some kind of flash application that becomes more and more popular on sites [1] providing something like "funny clips exchange service". In order to watch the clips one needs Flash Player. AFAIK there is no Flash Player for amd64 and there is no Flash-8 for linux. No doubt it is wrong, but I'm far from the idea that the clips people send are not worth seeing because of technical or license issues. So I want to have flash/wmv/whatever running under Gentoo instead of depriving myself. [1] http://www.metacafe.com/ -- Best regards, Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
