On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz> > wrote: >>>> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by >>>> 64bit >>>> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. >>> <SNIP> >>> >>> Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have >>> trouble with. They play fine in 32-bit Gentoo. >>> >> Mark, was thinking of you and your videos that don't play on 64bit when >> I read Volkers statement :) >> ffmpeg know lots of shit, but not all if it. >> > > Yeah, that's the truth. I suspect this specific case just lacks a > smart developer who wants to figure it all out and do the work to make > an Open Source codec that plays the file type, but maybe there's > patents and other junk that gets in the way.
It's possible they just don't have a sample to work with. If you can send it to them, they can at least add it to their samples archives. > > And really, as I use a lot of VM's all day long, it doesn't seem > overly important any more. It's trivial to just run a Windows VM to > play wmv files whereas finding someone in the Linux world who actually > cares about supporting and promoting the wmv format seems like a waste > of my time and theirs. They can work on better things. There are containers and codecs. Most containers are supported, leaving the codecs. Can you post the output of 'mplayer -identify $filename' on that file? -- :wq
