I was able to view wmv3 under both xine and mplayer under linux, using a certain dll i downloaded from a website.
I was not able to view wmv3 under VLC under any platform.
I do not care what player (even windows media player) as long as it supports getting streamed from VLC.
so the natural client whould be VLC, but it does not support wmv3.
cheers, erez.
Oded Arbel wrote:
ביום רביעי 31 מרץ 2004, 12:58, נכתב על ידי Ely Levy:
ביום ראשון 28 מרץ 2004, 16:42, נכתב על ידי Erez Doron:
hi
i am looking for a way to watch media player 9 (wmv3) on vlc.
I do not think that VLC can handle windows media video files nativly. I
think it does so on Windows using the DirectShow framework. on Linux I
suggest you use either MPlayer or Xine (or one of their many frontends -
I like Kaffeine). they both support the ability to play media by letting
MS-Windows native DLLs do the decoding by calling them through winelib.
I think mplayer/xine uses ffmpeg's native wvm3 coded.
AFAIK, ffmpeg does not [yet] support wmv3 (they have problems supporting wmv2, so I think they won't get to that till they fix wmv2). this was verified using google to be true as of 2003-11. If ffmpeg would support wmv3, then VLC would automaticly be able to play it as it is also using ffmpeg.
Also, wmv3 file format is heavily patented (and I think the video codec too) so while I saw some references to wmv3 file format being supported by ffmpeg it seems unlikely to me that ffmpeg will ever support wmv3.
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