Well, I did a bit of research on the web and found out that apparently there was recently a proof-of-concept hack to xine/MPlayer/VLC to add compatibility with the new WMV codecs. They apparently did this by using the info given by Microsoft to various international standards groups, thereby reverse-engineering the WMV codec. Anyway, that's about as far as it appears to have gone at this point. Too bad, because I can get most all of the WMV stuff to play on OS X by using a combination of WiMP, VLC, and QuickTime (with the Flip4Mac plugin). Having said that, VLC is the app that has the most trouble with the newer WMVs.
-PRH On Tuesday 21 February 2006 20:46, Cian Duffy wrote: > On 21/02/06, Paul Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, guys...didn't mean to ignite a flamewar! > > It was nothing to do with you ;) I'd invite people to look at the list > archives if they think I was over-reacting to Derick. > > > So there is no binary codec available for PPC, then? I'm a little > > confusedbecause the xine site, > and some of the documentation that came as > part of > > Theres no wrapper for the Quicktime components for PowerPC, only for x86 > DLL's. It could probably be implemented but would be extremely complex. > > There is work on a vc1 - Microsoft's HD-DVD proposed codec - decoder in > ffmpeg, which is by and large compatible with wmv3. Any PowerPC Linux > support for WMV3 is likely to come from this. > > Cian _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
