On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@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